Maybe come to think about it, that is the sign of an extrovert, in any event I have always from the earliest of ages found it difficult to wander into a restaurant on my own.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

It's easy to sit in relative luxury and peace and pontificate on the subject of the Third World debts.

We also have favourite place in France, called Charlot Premier in Nice, which does excellent oysters.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.