I usually visit mum on a Tuesday but went to London today instead. I arrived to find mum having her feet treated by the chiropodist, her hair recently coiffed and her fingernails had been painted by the visiting manicurist.

As mum pointed out, she has better nails now that she never does any washing up. By the time I left we had a circle of chairs and ladies around us and we had discussed the terror attack in Streatham, the coronavirus, the BAFTA’s versus the Oscars (BAFTA’s better, of course) and Prince William and Katherine (mum says she is the leader in that marriage!). We really had a good laugh and chin wag. I arrived home to find that a Domino was just giving birth to twins. She might still have a third in her swollen belly. More later.