Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

Will you lie to me and promise to read them? Books need to be read. The pages need to be turned.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

Adrian Mole's father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?