I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.

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.

Being a grandparent is whole new phase in your life.

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.