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She’s human being of Britain’s best loved comediennes, famous for her Fast Show catchphrase: ‘Does my bum appear big in this?’. Here, in the second extract from her unsparingly ingenuous and funny new book, The Real Me Is Thin, Arabella Weir explains to what extent her obsession with her weight has dominated her love life [...]

The anchorage to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. And such was the road to Eric.
Eric is our cat. My wife and I rescued him from Battersea Dogs and Cats home in July 2008: brace wide-eyed ‘parents’, excited about giving a young life a new start.
Two years on, I want him dead. In [...]

As I shake on yet another fabulously cut, but hideously uncomfortable dress, wedge my feet into greater degree of stunning shoes that squeeze my toes like bulldog clips, and try and draw milk from any satisfaction out of my breakfast of three measly grapes I pray myself: why would anyone want to work in [...]

After her hopes of acquirement pregnant were crushed, Caroline Van Den Heever turned to surrogacy to last alive her dream of starting a family

Occasionally, and I’m not abiding why, I tell my grandchildren that I used to be moderately a whizz at cartwheels, backbends and the Charleston, or that but also though I became an English teacher I hated English at tutor until I was in the sixth form. 
Perhaps I chance of a favorable result to suggest that [...]

Essential: Lavender is fabrication a come-back and is now the coolest scent around
This has been a bumper year for Britain’s 25-odd lavender farms.
And in the same proportion that the traditional favourite comes back into fashion, rather than selling the harvest as a raw ingredient lavender farmer Jod Mitchell, from Kent, uses the volatile oil from [...]