If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

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

If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least five of my other friends have had cancer but survived it.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?