My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart - I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

When you have a kid, money matters.

There are a handful of barbecue seafood shacks on the beach at Hat Nai Yang, which is a fabulous place to have dinner. It's very much run for locals and they serve the catch of the day, which might be lobster, white snapper or squid. It's ridiculously reasonable, too.

Love means knowing when to let go.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter.