My father's example taught me self-reliance, to make my own luck, and to work to make things happen.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

It is security that I crave and money provides security. What is that old line about money? "Some is good, more is better and too much is just right."

I'm wary of the new contactless ways of paying. The idea of paying with your phone is a little worrying: I have lost more than one over the years.

I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.

I worked on local papers, before taking a job as a webmaster with a very well known telecommunications company in London, as I thought the internet was the future.

It took me a while to get established - success didn't happen overnight.