Just back from Leasey’s where she didn’t have to strap me into the harness to watch a chick flick starring Cher. With my psychosexual make-up, the incantation “Winona Ryder plays a Jewish girl who desperately wants to be Catholic” is more effective in overwhelming artistic judgement than “Halle Berry runs around wearing a leather catsuit and brandishes a whip“. Bob Hoskins’ accent was terrible; Mermaids wasn’t bad at all. The chicken stuffed with Philadelphia cheese and chives that Leasey cooked also turned out to be up there alongside her vegetarian spaghetti bolognese in Leasey’s repertoire of improbably tasty meals. Thank you very, very much.

Of course, if Nigella had done the cooking…