When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

My ex-boyfriend can round last night, which was weird because I didn't know he was in a coma.

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.