I trust to luck. I am planning to be a millionaire before I die but I don't have a plan as to how that will happen.

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

After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.

I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.

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

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.

People looking at what I do from the outside would think it was a secure world I live in, but it isn't. Just because you had a series last year, doesn't mean you will have one next. But I am quite happy with that.