The only thing I'm obsessed with is sleeping. I'm really good at it and if I don't do it I'm horrible.

Even when my mum used to edit the paper she would come home, put us to bed and then go back to the office. She must have been exhausted. She worked on Sunday papers so I always had her on Mondays. I loved Mondays! She would always be waiting for me outside school. I remember feeling very loved.

I don't want to be doing anything else, I just want to be with my family.

My twenties were painful. You had to go out to nightclubs. I love not having to pretend to enjoy those things anymore.

I think I was born aged about 86.

I had a go with Botox but looked both scared and surprised at the same time. I don't like to be either.

I don't believe in Chap Stick, I'm going to say that right now. Carmex can sometimes feel like too much of an attack. It's just too much sometimes.

I've never knowingly taken my make-up off. The stuff you see me in I first put on in the 70s.

Once, when I was 14 I thought easily the most glamorous thing was white eyeliner inside the eye and then heavy lip liner round the mouth. I think I looked repellent.

I love that ageing rocker look, dressed in black and looking like you slept in your make-up.

I don't like anything too perfect, or anyone who looks like they have just stepped out of a salon; that's not for me.

If I could grow my fringe down to my shoulders to cover my entire face and occasionally peer out to answer questions I would. It's my beauty security blanket.

I am allergic to sweating. Seriously I get in shape by lying down.

It's deep in the south of India and next to Goa, but thankfully the folk who like Goa haven't worked out that Kerala is a lot nicer and just next door. You do feel that you are discovering somewhere entirely new in Kerala. It makes you feel like you are on a totally different planet.

I'd love to spend a month in China.

Uggs are great.

I watch 'Question Time' religiously.

I love PG Wodehouse.

Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.

Ads are cool.

I grew up not worrying about my looks.

My husband thinks I'm insane.

I never take my makeup off.

Now, like a lot of parents, I have to fight with myself every time I leave the house not to buy my children more stuff.