Curtain call

Just to prove I am not moaning all the time, I was on the Clinique stand in House of Fraser in Sutton Coldfield last week wearing my best frock - which, before you get the wrong idea, was to promote Aladdin, a panto I am in from Wednesday at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School.

While I was there, happily disrupting the place, all the ladies on every perfume stand were brilliant and great fun to work with.

I did notice though that customers do not seem too keen to buy from a department happily slapping make up on a bloke in a dress - unless of course they were rushing off to bring their husbands in to try the new service.