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UPFRONT:WOULD YOU LOOK at the time? It’s six weeks to the wedding. Yes, I know, I only just got engaged, but I thought the point of doing that was just to organise the hoolie. Besides, I’ve always been an instant gratification girl, and would be hard pushed to hang around too long between the askin’ and the dancin’, so to speak.

Granted, I haven’t got an outfit yet. And some minor details such as food and drink have still to be ironed out. But the main thing is that, for someone who can’t choose an appetiser without suffering buyer’s remorse, I’m uncharacteristically certain about the groom. And despite being a fully-paid-up, run-for-the-door commitment-phobe for most of my adult life, I’m down with the death-do-us-part bit, even though my great-grandmother lived to 103.