I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.

I've wanted to do this for some time, but waited for my children to grow up and leave home.

During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it's being with my kids.

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

Working at home for the first time with our five children under foot, I discovered that most of the magazine cartoons I was selling had to do with family life and small children. I then decided to produce The Family Circus .