Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it's propaganda for the enemy.

Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.

I also read modern novels - I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.