I have been working at Tesco for three weeks now and sometimes I have to pinch myself to make myself realise that I am back there again; I worked there in 2003 for a year before we went to France to buy a hotel. That seems so long ago when in fact it was only six years – but it has been a past six years spent being my own boss and what a six years it certainly was. When we left here in January 2004 it was supposed to be a long-term thing but here we are back again and settled in – nothing could make me budge from here for a long time!

Yeah I miss our hotel, especially the summers when I would get around my work in bare feet because basically I am not a shoe person. Those were the days. Now I have to wear them in this job so I am looking around at brands like Cole Haan for a comfortable pair that are flat but also nice looking. There’s another thing I have to get used to – wearing a uniform again – in France it was so warm during the spring and summer, even into autumn, that it was dresses all the time.