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

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

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

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.

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