I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, my perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.

Boxers don't have sex before a fight. Do you know why that is? They don't fancy each other.

I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.

It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.

If only Africa had more mosquito nets then every year we could save millions of mosquitoes from dying needlessly of aids.