In a good mood I call my hair Chestnut with Gold Glints. In a bad mood, I call it mousy brown

Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first.

Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your letter. I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.

Then i imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.

Isola doesn't approve of small talk and believes in breaking the ice by stomping on it.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.