I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

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.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

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