Not just gardening! You can make like Princess Margaret and rock one in the bath, too.

Clariel, the new Old Kingdom series prequel by Garth Nix. It is, as expected, phenomenal.

My collection of Horrible Histories is still in pride of place at my parent's place! They aren't exactly accurate, but they are so great at getting kids into history in the first place.

We actually touched on quite a lot of the gory and salacious stuff at my school - I think the teachers were clever enough to realise that just banging on and on about this castle or that castle or this monarch or that treaty was going to get us to switch off very quickly, but chuck in a couple of gruesome murders and…

I'd hardly say she was forgotten - outside the UK, maybe, but I learnt about Mary Ann Cotton at school when we studied the Victorian era and their views on femininity and motherhood. Amelia Dyer is another famous Victorian woman who ran a boarding house for children whose families couldn't care for them, and killed…

Who doesn't, eh?! There are loads of sloes in the woods behind my parent's place, so I make four or five big demijohns every autumn, then give bottles to all my friends for christmas.

They weren't just any Victorian baby pictures - they were post-mortem photographs. Most of those babies were dead when the picture was taken (photography was expensive and often a post-mortem photograph would be the only image a family would have of a child that died young).

Ah, that sounds like me. Only it's popcorn, sloe gin and Amarula. Also, I live in London, so here we just call it "TV".

I would watch the HELL out of this film. Write it this minute. Please.

If we go by how these things have been handled in the past, George would still be king but there would be a Regent to take care of the ceremonial stuff until he came of age, which would probably be Harry.

Answer me one question.

Yep in the books it burnt off twice - on the pyre and again in the fighting pits. I thought it would have looked really cool on the show - sort of emphasising her being "reborn"

I bet they won't have the guts. It always pissed me off a bit that Dany's hair didn't burn off on the funeral pyre in the show - it seemed so obvious they were worried she'd look less 'sexy'.

I'm not attempting to have a "pissing contest", for heavens sake. I'm a woman, it's not like I could aim it anyway.

No it's not - I got my license on a manual two years ago and was taught that unless you're on a very steep slope you never park the car in gear for precisely this reason.

I drive a manual. That's what the parking break is for. Unless you're parked on a steep slope you don't leave the car in gear for precisely this reason.

Oh, for sure. Over the years I've dived with a lot of sharks (what can I say, I'm a fucking weirdo) and the only reaction I've ever got has been them swimming away - even the big ones. The most dangerous shark I've dived with (in my opinion) was an enormous bull off the coast of South Africa and I didn't even realise…

Ah, of course, didn't think about that.

I genuinely don't see how someone can be acknowledged to have the capacity to get engaged to someone, but still have to be supervised in every respect by a conservator. It seems odd to me.

WHO WOULD LEAVE A CAR IN GEAR ON THE EDGE OF A CLIFF?!?! I'm getting panicky just reading it.