British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to Away matches.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.

Wild men are so enormously attractive.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.