What? You haven’t started your winter colour palette yet? Get yourself down to Miss Selfridge and purchase a pair! Now I’m on the hunt for a mustard fisherman’s jumper and something in moss green and I will sleep soundly at night, knowing that finally, my life is complete. Until the next time I go on ASOS anyway.

Having just had a little peek on Amazon, I’m very excited to see my forthcoming novel Horse Play has been added. I’m even MORE excited about the introduction of my luscious new character, Javier Hamilton-Scott. Son of an English Earl and a Spanish Flamenco dancer (as you do) Javier is dark, brooding and has an jodphur-clad arse you could crack walnuts with. Hurrah! This novel was so much fun to research (quaffing champers at Cheltenham on Gold Cup day etc) and it even inspired me to hop up on a hoss again, although I was straddle-walking like something out of War Of The Worlds for days afterwards. I thought a decade of Legs, Bums and Tums classes was painful.

Now it’s gone all unseasonably wet and cold, I can’t get enough of the B&Gs. Conjured up by my mum and aunties, it’s a mixture of brandy, ginger wine and a splash of ginger ale. Very Miss Marple, it’s all about the old-fashioned drinks darlinks