Is it OK to...

Continue to believe that Bridget Jones is a positive role model for women? This view has become unfashionable lately. Plenty think she is an apologist for the ditsy, shambolic sort of woman who does her sex no favours. On the contrary, I believe Bridget – notwithstanding Zellweger’s interfered-with face – is a role model in looks-obsessed times. Someone not afraid to look foolish and fattish and unkemptish, who is loved (and desired) for it because everyone appreciates a woman who is jolly, and good fun. That is precisely what we need more of.

Is it just me?

Who has bought a pair of thigh boots? Well, obviously not. There’s Rihanna. Cara Delevingne. Kendall Jenner. But not so many of the Cold Feet generation who don’t wear shorts as evening wear. I can give you no explanation for this lapse, other than the usual: couldn’t resist copying the hot younger woman. But then, one of the pleasures of shopping is changing-room camaraderie. Total strangers egg each other on. I bought the boots because the oligarch’s wife told me they’d be “sexy!”, adding, with an arched eyebrow: “Come on. They’re £59! You don’t even have to wear them.” Amen to that.