Arabella Weir
Arabella Weir
Arabella Weiris a British comedian, actress and writer...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth6 December 1965
school kids appreciate
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
children school firsts
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying.
kindness teenager school
There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
kids school london
I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.
father sibling school
With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.
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?