I get asked if I mind when someone burns my music. I'm just flattered that people want to.
The first meal my husband ever made me was a chicken curry. I have never tasted anything so delicious in my life.
People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.
I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since Ive been in Downton Abbey, which has made me much more fashion conscious.
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
I believe anything can happen.
Coming eyeball to eyeball with a hummingbird on my terrace is as exciting to me as any celebrity Ive met as a result of Downton Abbey.
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?
Learn to speak by listening.
People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.
Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time.