I saw them recently on their morning walk, and they caused me a pang. I have always wanted a pug and now I can't have one, because buying a puppy when you are too old to take it for walks is unfair. There are dog-walkers, of course; but the best part of owning a dog is walking with it, enjoying its delight when it detects the signs that a walk is imminent, and its glee when its lead is unsnapped and it can bound off over the grass, casting cheerful looks back at you from time to time to make sure that you are still in touch.

It’s often the same with any new, revolutionary thing. People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.

Not being able to perform adequately.

As somebody who loved people, was always curious, a loyal friend, a mother, wife, always positive and authentic.

Not getting into drama school when I was 17. In those days, the first thing people said was, “Where did you train?”

I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.

Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.

I lose bank cards, I’m untidy, I get bored very quickly.

Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.