Being present where you are.

When my daughter and my stepdaughters were feeling unhappy, we used to pretend to unlock something in their heart and then pour golden liquid into them, and it always warmed them. For me, that’s what love feels like – a warm feeling inside.

As you go through life, you discover so many forms of love – passionate, compassionate, familial, friendship. Love is hard to describe but it’s wonderful.

Realising that if they were drowning, you’d try to save them.

A walk-on part for my mum in Les Misérables. It was in a charity auction. She always dreamed of being in a West End show.

I’m convinced heartache almost killed me a few years ago.

A miniature pet elephant, one that is no bigger than a guinea pig.

Getting an A for my English A-level. I’m dyslexic; it was never detected and I was written off as scatty and lazy. This proved everyone wrong, including me.

Right now. Ask me again when my children are grown, and I’ll sob, “When they loved me more than that woman/man they’ve shacked up with.”

Life modelling for a woman who made me recite Shakespeare as I posed. I had a hangover, and it was all a bit much.