My boyfriend Ben is a property developer whose work I admired long before I ever met him.

My sons are called Bay and Oscar (which is a name we picked off a nursery school tea towel, when I said I thought Hercules was too strong a name for a baby).

My stepsons are Orion and Hal and I have a border terrier called Foxy, who is very tolerant with the children but less patient with the foxes in our garden and the Westie 3 doors down.