If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

I don't subscribe to the 'Doctor Who' magazine and we've only got the normal amount of 'Doctor Who' fridge magnets.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.