Personal Development

For most of us, getting into a lift is one of the easiest things in the world, but for people with a fear of enclosed spaces it can be a nightmare experience. For 55-year-old Jill from Lancing, it meant always having to use the stairs in public buildings or flats - and the London Underground was a complete no-no.

The Absolutely Fabulous movie was confirmed at the end of last year but, as with all these things, we take it with a proverbial pinch until the evidence starts mounting up... which it does, as soon as you share a coffee with Ruby Wax!

Thank heavens for loud Americans!

I am at a fuel station on a very sunny day, on the outskirts of Malaga, Spain. I have actually gone there to buy some Charcoal, as I will have some friends over for a Barbecue.

I feel I let myself down; how many times in a day do we use this sentence ? How often do we believe that we are not doing well enough? How often in a day do we chastise ourselves for not being perfect? For not having lived up to our own expectations?

There was a time when I believed that I was letting myself down, and I was so convinced that this was true that I was making my own days pretty miserable.