Jilly Cooper — British Author born on February 21, 1937,

Jilly Cooper OBE is an English author. She began her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the Rutshire Chronicles... (wikipedia)

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.