I took a fortnight off. But I'm not a great believer in breaks. I don't want to be rattling around inside my own head. I did feel I was spiralling into a Kathy Burke character and tried going out, but I prefer it here. Filming keeps me busy. It absorbs me.

You could probably get through life without knowing how to roast a chicken, but the question is, would you want to?

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

I am determined that my children should have no financial security. It ruins people not having to earn money.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

I am not a chef. I am not even a trained or professional cook. My qualification is as an eater.