I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.

Jesus Christ, it's like living with Stevie bloody Nicks,' I said, 'only without the cocaine, which would be more fun.

That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.