I wanted to be all kinds of things growing up.  I wanted to be a plant, if I remember, first.  I’d say to my mum “I wanna be a plant, I wanna be a plant!” and I wanted to be a teacher.

As a kid, my holiday every year was to go hop picking down in Kent with
my Nan for five weeks, it made the jungle look like luxury

We sang ballads, so our choreography was: get up off the stool and get back on the stool, walk forwards, don’t forget your stool

Here I am now, I’m a member of the British Empire. It actually happened to me. What a lovely life, I’ve had a great life!