Gifted teachers

A private school has sent letters home asking parents to restrict spending on Christmas gifts for teachers to £50. Cough, cough, splutter, cough.

As my mum would say: “More money than sense...”

And these mummies and daddies have clearly got a load of money – following stories that some private school teachers have received presents like Mulberry handbags and dinners at Michelin-starred restaurants.

Personally, I don’t understand what’s wrong with a folded up bit of A4 caked in glitter. Or, as my teacher friend once received, a box of Quality Street (with all the strawberry creams mysteriously missing). So it appears Kate and

rift was over the way Meghan spoke to the staff. Uh oh... you can tell pretty much everything you ever need to know about someone from how they speak to ‘the staff’ – be it to a lady-in-waiting or a lady in Lidl. I imagine Kate knows just this – and that within it big trouble lies ahead. So excited about Mary Poppins returning to our screens this month. The original remains in my top five movies of all time.

And not just for possibly the best, most outrageous musical lyric of all time. “Though we adore men individually, “We agree that as a group they’re rather stupid.” Mrs Banks!

Written off as a

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slightly odd no hoper without any chance of victory. Fighting the fight of their life.

Lurching around beneath a torrent of blows from every quarter.

But getting up time and again for more. How does Theresa Fury do it?