I have three boys, so I live in a household full of testosterone.

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

The siblings of special needs children are quite special. Absolutely accepting and totally loving, from birth, someone who is different mentally, and has a different way of seeing the world, is a wonderful trait. It's a trait I wish there was another way of getting, but there isn't. And it does involve a degree of not having it fantastically easy.

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.