I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.

There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

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

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.

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.

Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?