Arabella Weir
Arabella Weir
Arabella Weiris a British comedian, actress and writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth6 December 1965
class goal priorities
When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.
kids class race
Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?
son years class
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
appear deal fear might people species surely types
I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
greatest mistakes slept
I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.
growing-up welcome made
As I was growing up, it was made clear that the fat me wasn't welcome, that a thin person was expected and awaited, and impatiently so.
feelings these-days expected
Why has everything got to be about feelings these days? In the old days, no one knew what anyone was feeling and, what's more, they weren't expected to.
hate crazy party
If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.
new-year exercise views
In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.
hunting ifs
If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
teacher opportunity luxury
I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.
goal form tricky
Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
crush actors life-is
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
husband boys my-husband
I dont understand boys - just ask my husband.