Maeve's times: in her own words

Sixties. School outing

Just plane bores

But does anybody care?

A Turkish bath

Life as a waitress

Back to school

Thinking about underwear down under

The nonsense of etiquette

Seventies. The world's greatest lies about women

Baby blue

Women are fools

Mary

Women are fools

Lorraine

Women are fools

Sandy

Pageantry and splendour at Westminster for the royal wedding

How to speak proper

Who sent this postcard?

Holiday romance

I was a winter sport

Keeping faith with my dear, dear Dublin

The couple who behaved perfectly

A snatch at some happiness

Vanity of vanity, all is vanity

A nice, traditional, normal sort of Patrick's Day

The day we nearly wrote a sex book

A week of self-improvement

Violet

Anna's abortion

Idiotic queues

Bathroom joggers

Happy hypochondria

The man in South Anne Street

A magic meeting

Do it honestly or not at all

Hope and bitter memories

Numbed Dover waits for lists of the dead

Eighties. The right to die in your own home

When Beckett met Binchy

Fit for a queen

Contraceptive conversation

The happy couple

Encounters at the airport

Up in the clouds with Charlie Haughey

Election brings life to an ageing society

Maeve's operation : the whole story

Keeping cruise off the roads is new priority

Develop your own style

One eye on bargains, one eye on Alsatians

A Tipperary Robin Hood

Maeve on Margaret Thatcher

No fags, no food

it's no fun being Fergie

It was one of those custard heart days

The man who set up office in the ladies

A royal romance spelling danger from the start

Making a spectacle of myself

Madam is paying?

Nineties. Even the presidents are getting younger

My Theodora story

Heading for the hustings

Please don't forget to write

Casually elegant meets the mob

They'll never let her go

There is no excuse

Fear of falling off the wagon

Getting it right at the end

For tired read terrible

Traveller's tales

the call of the check-in desk

Love's last day out

A walk on the wild side

Peter panic attack

Little person! Tiny person!

Fighting February

She didn't do so badly

Curmudgeons of summer

The fall

Let's talk gridlock

'They've gone and dumped Portillo...'

Mrs Perfect

Death in Kilburn

Saved by the wiles of Cupid

Just don't ask

Bleach sniffers on my desk

Talking to various ships passing in the night

Sweet dreams

Staving off the senior moments

2000s. Mr Gageby...

Another world for the price of a cup of coffee

'One up for the cardigans'

My part in the movies

Striking a pose for my country

Ten things you must never say to anyone with arthritis

What's it like to have a house full of film crew? Let me tell you all about it

Will and Kate show is testament to abiding allure of the royals

Postscript. 'I don't have any regrets about any roads I didn't take...' (in conversation with Joanne Hunt).