I think society in different decades had a very different meaning. I think society during the war meant to survive together. Society post-war, it was the husbands were at work and the housewives were gossiping outside. Where I was brought up, it was a great mass, a grey mass of people who have to obey to the rules. And, in current time society is lot different because we are so busy with our lives. Sometimes people live in the same building without knowing their neighbours, and I understand that because you come back home so exhausted. Society has become Facebook friends and chatting online, and that has become a society (laughs).

It is a very difficult question because now Mr Cameron talks about society, society, society, I don’t think it exists in the same way it has. People have become so individual and your home has become the society, your home has become this fortress, this castle, where your life is. I hope my neighbours are alright. 

I can tell you, in my block of flats, there are 23 flats. I know quite a few of people, I don’t have any really personal relationships with the neighbours except one, her name is Pauline, and she is amazing. We have dinners, we hang out in the garden. She works in Charleston House in Firle, she’s very educated and I have very lovely conversations with her. And to be honest I don’t need more and I don’t need less.

I think those relationships are on the perfect level to satisfy both of us. She broke her leg, we looked after her. When my partner Rob had an injury a couple of months ago and I had to come to work, she was the only one I could rely on.