Waitrose is a big part of my life

It has been a slow week with no visits to and from the police, no sleepless nights dealing with someone suffering from a full-blown episode of paranoid psychosis.

Just dealing with lawyers about a matter that I will keep to myself for now, and coping with the crises of my friends.

As for funds, I did have a mauvais quart d’heure today when I checked my bank balance and asked myself how I’d managed to go 100 past my overdraft limit overnight.

But then I realised the sum was actually in credit: I'd been paid.

Waitrose-related news is that they have rid of several tills with self-service checkouts.

Adrian Chiles has been there at least 1,000 times in four years .

He has a book of his columns being published next year .

But he is not married to the editor of the Guardian and I’m not on the telly, so no one will buy his.