In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.