However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me