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

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

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.

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

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?

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

Statistically, if you have ever dieted you are extremely likely not only to regain any weight you lose, but to go on to gain even more. Dieting makes you fat.