My best friend is my husband - we are just so much on the same wave length, we think the same things at the same time and often we don't even need to speak just a look says it all. He's quite a different sort of person to me, more confident, forthright, I'm gentler and quieter - so we complement each other nicely. We've been best friends 22 years now.

My second best friend is like a mirror in many ways, quiet and shy, wacky humour - and a patient listener, someone I can confide in and vice versa - we've been friends only a year but very quickly became close friends.