I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs.