One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.