Anne Reid

Christmas Day itself hasn't always been great. My parents went abroad when I was very young, and I went to boarding school. We had a few Christmases before that - I remember a big sack of presents and Mummy cooking goose. ”

I never thought of getting married again. I'm quite difficult to live with, I think. ”

I've accepted stuff even if it's a few lines, because I think it's better to be seen. ”

I'm afraid sometimes I cram too much into my schedule. And I'm not very domesticated. I'm absolutely hopeless in the kitchen. ”

I'm not really emotionally dependant on anybody except my son, my daughter-in-law, and my grandchildren. But a partner... I haven't felt like that for so many years, I don't really remember what it was like. ”

I'm past it now - love. I can't imagine it happening again. ”

Wouldn't it be lovely if there were no such things as birth certificates? If I really thought I was 53, life would be much better. I'd love to blow up all the birth certificates. ”

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own. ”

I think it's such a clever idea, that you fall in love when you're 16, and then you have this fantasy about that person for the rest of your life. ”

You never know what life is going to throw at you, really, do you? ”