I splash out on holidays and scented candles – I’ve got one that my fiancee won’t let me light, so it’s just for show.

A painting of a man who was killed on the Dutch coast in 1600.

Some material things make my life more enjoyable; many, however, would not. I like having an expensive private plane, but owning a half-dozen homes would be a burden. Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner.

A beautiful, sequined dress for a showbiz function. It was pushing £1,850.

All the things I ought to have done.

Undiagnosed VIPoma in 2018.

My mother says I had a plan to be a farmer’s wife and a violinist, going to concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in my tractor.

People are often traumatised by the sleeplessness in the first years of their children’s lives, but I was insanely happy to be married and have two children. The only dark cloud was how much we were loathed for having babies who slept through the night.

In rehearsals. The play is very funny about mothers and daughters, but one of the gags hit a raw nerve.