I think holidays come in all sizes - sometimes you just need to relax.
Kate Garraway
I had the biggest dry-cleaning bill on 'Daybreak' because I was always on the run and spilling coffee on myself.
Much is written about parenting - its joys and tribulations - and then about the transition into hot flushes, night sweats and (if we're lucky) a new life as a grandmother.
Midlife is a time of explosive change, particularly for women. It's just like experiencing another puberty. The changes that take place in your body are enormous and, like puberty, you have to throw off the past.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to keep things clean. It's just the neatness I struggle with.
The more I go to Australia, the more I realise how enormous the country is and how much there is to see. There's really nowhere like it.
They say breast milk helps just about everything - I'm surprised you can't run a car on it.
Bartering is not my strong point.
The negative thing about working on a breakfast show is that the alarm goes off at 2:15 A.M., and I get picked up at 2:30 A.M. That's just insanely early.
Nobody loves a baby more than me and I would happily have had about 10 of them.
I think we have a problem with how we treat people and alcohol.
I think the thing about Easter holidays in particular is you don't know what the weather's going to be like.
Wallace and Gromit's Children's Charity does a fantastic job, raising funds to improve the lives of sick children in hospitals and hospices throughout the U.K.
After my first marriage ended in 2002 I went out with someone who made me feel very sexy. He was ten years younger than me and full of the joy of youth, which was wonderful after all the sadness of divorce, and a great confidence boost.
As a child, I would rush to the school gates as the bell went, to be collected by my mother, Marilyn, who was always immaculately dressed in a pencil skirt and matching jacket.
My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.
I genuinely don't think there is anything wrong with wanting to look the best you can.
I loved having children and started relatively late.
The gang on 'GMB' is what really makes it. I love Ben Shephard, Richard Arnold, Susanna Reid and even Piers Morgan.
I've always been a bit ridiculous.
I can cope with politicians now I've had about 40,000 cockroaches tipped over my head. Westminster's going to be no problem.
Women should do what makes them feel good.
You've got to get your head right about ageing. Taking care of diet and exercise and facing your fears about growing older will lead you into a happier place emotionally and mentally. You feel like you have a choice.
The clever thing about the designs on 'Strictly' is that the razzle-dazzle comes from the materials used in making the dresses rather than because the cut or style is plunging or revealing.
I think a lot of the political programmes have decided that most people aren't interested in politics, so they broadcast only for people who are.
I don't want to look old in my advanced years so I go on a power walk for half an hour every day, and it helps to keep the pounds off.
Well we have a tiny garden, it's like a postage stamp, so generally we try to get out to the parks in London as much as possible.
I think I learned I'm braver than I think I am.
I used to be chaotic and unkempt.
I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.
Sequin trousers can be scary and many women may worry they will be unflattering on their legs.
Looking back on my early romantic life, I was more worried about what impression I made on my dates than what I thought of them. I would approach them as though they were job interviews, trying to wow the man so that he would ask me out again and I got the 'job.'
Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that's too selfish a course of action to impose on my family.
You can't beat a British holiday for rock pooling and sandcastles with fish and chips on the seafront - perfect.
My husband is very much of the ilk that expects to waited on hand and foot during the festive season.
If you said, 'I'm giving up smoking,' people would put on a parade. If you said, 'I'm going to eat more healthily,' people would say, 'Good for you.' If it's drinking, the first reaction is, 'That's so boring. You're going to be so boring.'
When you're juggling children, a marriage and a couple of jobs, something has to give - and, for me, it's living in a perfectly tidy home.
It's a bit of a joke among my friends that, although I'm very busy, active and constantly rushing around all over the place, I've always struggled to fit any 'real' exercise into my life.
A friend puts body moisturiser on every day because it makes her feel desirable. I have started doing it, too, and it really works.
When you've been in a relationship for a long time, the physical side of things can be very unspontaneous.
I have always felt so bombarded with dietary advice that always seemed to make me feel guilty about the 'naughty' food I secretly preferred, that I switched off and ate what I fancied.
In some ways it's hard not to be a bit cynical when a friend tells you about their fantastic new diet, because there's a fresh eating fad in the press every day.
I think that political coverage generally comes in on a level that means if you live and breathe Westminster detail and diary, then you get it.
I have been lucky enough to go to all sorts of places - diving in Malaysia, snorkelling with wild turtles in Cuba and dolphin-spotting in Kenya.
I realise, of course, that my cluttered existence is deeply unfashionable.
Some of the most productive people in history have been self-confessed 'muck-middens,' as my husband would say: Agatha Christie, Benjamin Franklin and even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to name a few.
Whatever my husband may say, I don't think men really understand what it is like to be a woman, or particularly a mother, at Christmas time.
Just because it is Christmas doesn't mean you should bottle all your feelings up. Mind you, sometimes being a good wife does mean knowing when to shut up.
True, I do love finding something nice for my nearest and dearest, but there is still a pressure to find the perfect present for every member of the family.
Ageing might have its drawbacks but it brings with it hard-won wisdom and a wonderful sense of freedom.
