What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.

Sorry, I don?t do offal' - when asked to spend a day cooking at Westminster

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government

Many kids can tell you about drugs but do not know what celery or courgettes taste like.

My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldn't put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant.

Resolutions come and go, but this one you could call eternal because it means that every year from now on there will be a commemoration.