Sita Walker

You know, if guests were coming, they were coming to see us exactly how we are, which is why my dad insisted on the good lounge.

But...

Mum was the polar opposite of that.

She was really happy to have anyone there.

And if you walk through the door, you know, she'd be sitting on the lounge with a cup of tea and she'd probably throw a grape at you or something.

And you're instantly part of the family, part of the team.

And that's one of her very special gifts, I think, is to make anybody feel comfortable.

like they are close family.

She would treat, you know, she would treat the Queen the same way that she would treat the Ironing Lady and that's in her bones to be like that.

He's a very principled man.

My father would do all the things that he felt required attention to detail.

And that's why we had an ironing lady in the end because he couldn't do all the ironing.

He didn't have time and mum doesn't care if your shirt's wrinkled.

So he would hang the clothes out on the line in a very particular fashion with the pegs and he taught us all how to do it so that we wouldn't waste the pegs and so that everything would dry as efficiently as possible.

He would alphabetise the bookshelf.

He had a very neat and tidy study, which we were not allowed to go into, where his CDs were all lined up in genres.

Dad's a big reader.

He loves philosophy.

He's an accountant.

He is an affectionate father, yes.