With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

I'm very good at being out of work.

Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.

I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.