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.

Anne Reid

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I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.

quite got first place

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.

day great christmas cooking

My favourite time of year is two weeks before Christmas when everybody's up for it - you're having lunches with people, drinking Cosmopolitans, and getting ready for something exciting!

you christmas time people

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

lawyers family church father

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

really being mad proud