A nanny? Isn't this what ex-husbands are for? Apply. It's a dream.

Seriously - if you planned to do it in the summer or at Easter when your ex might have them to stay anyway, it is such a liberating experience, and it's stunning too - caves, ravines, waterfalls (all private land so you can wander for hours and not see a soul.) And the castle is gorgeous. Gossip has it that Mrs Heinz bought it on her credit card then told her husband.

Ha ha.

Somebody assumed that the literary scene 'glamour' is similar to the fashion scene?

Let me tell ya, they are VERY different.

Sure, there's egos in the literary world. But these are still educated people who might like a drink now and then. And literary people usually know about something. They're not stupid.

Whereas the fashion scene revolves around ostentatious gay designers, bitchy cliched PR ladies who make Edina Monsoon look like Mother Teresa, stupid rich kids who want to be Stella McCartney, and a lot of naive teenage models getting their fifteen minutes. Oh, and cocaine. Lots of cocaine. The fashion world is a bit steaming pile of pretentious horseshit. Even my girlfriend agrees with me, and she's moved to Paris so she can prance around on the catwalk in front of a bunch of prissy Karl Lagerfeld wannabes with manicured gerbils stuffed way up their arses.

I prefer literary people.