Exactly; the negative connotation is so strong.

Ah, sorry — I'm clearly not fancy enough to recognise it to be a private jet from the picture! I just thought it was normal a normal Etihad flight that anyone could go on, not a private one.

Aren't drinks free on that airline, for everyone? Does it make it less obnoxious if it's less "look, I'm drinking an expensive thing that I can only have because I'm rich" and more "look, I'm drinking a tasty thing that everyone else is also drinking"?

There should be more fancy dress parties! My parents talk about loads of fancy dress parties they attended in their youth; I've barely been to any. We must bring 'em back!

If someone went to a proper Hallowe'en party like we had when I was little dressed like that I wouldn't like it, because "old lady" isn't a costume that fits with vampies, zombies, wicked witches, etc. But this looks very like like a non-Hallowe'en fancy dress party, so I suppose there's no judgement being passed on…

YES. Fancy dress parties are for any old costume. Hallowe'en is for scary costumes.

YES. I do not close my eyes. I sort of do each bit of my face separately so they eyes never need to be closed.

My bathroom-related terror is that when I flush the loo the sound of the water will muffle the sound of my screaming when whatever is waiting to grab me finally grabs me. I still open the bathroom door pre-flush in case I need to run. I'm 32.

I think that from now on the lovely name "Sorcia" will always be terrifying to me (which is better than what it was before, which was "really annoying girlfriend of my friend).

I know I've heard of it in the Civil War context (rebel yell battle cries, etc) but yeah, that's probably about the 101st thing I'd think of (and I doubt I'd bother getting beyond the first five things I'd think of, so I wouldn't be worried).

PS — You just reminded me that some of my young cousins-in-law apparently really like me because I "talk just like Adele". Hurrah? Hurrah!

SAVING FOR FUTURE JUSTIFICATION OF MY NAME CHOICES.

She danced AMAZINGLY because she studied dance for most of her life and all the "ooh, I'm having trouble with my dance this week" scenes are even less believable with her than all the others! Her Russian dancer's unimpressed face when they make him do these stupid things is really great, though.

Yep; I lived in California for most of my grown-up life and my husband is an all-American-by-birth but all-Mexican-by-blood boy, and it's so weird that now I'm back in England people think my new Spanish name is "so beautiful and exotic and sexy" and back in California concerned friends would say "but if you take his…

You're exactly right. This is not particularly an aristocratic thing at all, more a new-money thing.

I would definitely shoot that — if you're there to shoot behind the scenes, that includes the seams! Very, very bad decision on the girl to wear open-toed shoes with tights.

This is EXACTLY like that.

Yes, absolutely — but absolutely not with open-toed shoes!

I don't know which gelato adverts you mean… but actually I can't say I've seen any gelato adverts at all, so probably not!

I called my American bloke a daft apeth and he had never heard it before and thought I was calling him "Don Draper". !!!