Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

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

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.