Last Saturday I forwent my usual Christmas knees up in London with mates to do the best thing EVER. The annual Dragon Xmas Charity Sale in Oxford. The Dragon Sale is a gorgeous prep school in the heart of the city I can just imagine some of my characters at. My Xmas sales at Upper Caldecote Primary involved a few jars of chutney and a badly dressed Santa (not that I’m complaining) but this was on another scale. Plenty of fodder for my books with all the yummy mummies and dashing dads running round in red trousers. I was signing books in the prestigious Authors Corner (scribbled in by my heroine Jilly Cooper on previous years no less) with a whole host of literary heavyweights. And me. Robert Harris, Richard Dawkins, famous historian Roy Strong… but my favourite part of the day was morning coffee at the headmasters at which I got to share a living room with the two Jeremys. Clarkson turned up looking a bit bleary eyed, but Jezza Paxman WOWZERS! He bounded in like a red setter, looking very lean and jocular. I now have a bit of a crush, especially when he admired my sparkly shoes. Jeremy Paxman does sequins, who knew?