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

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too.

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.

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.

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

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