The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.

Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.

My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.

Metaphors convince at once or not at all.

In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.

We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

It's the tyranny of an oligarchy that I'm concerned about.

I don't go where I'm tolerated. I go where I'm celebrated.

Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.

To Odin many a soul was driven, to Odin many a rich gift given.