Does your skin seem older?
I had settled down to watch Grand Designs on Channel 4. It was just the kind of build I love - eco-friendly, with a small budget, and passionate and principled builders getting their own hands dirty, not a "£2m throw money at it and produce an identikit piece of modernism" build. Ian was watching with me. I had a glass of wine in my hand and a fire going in the woodburner. Perfect. Then the commercial break. A young and beautiful woman was being used to sell skincare products to women at least ten years older. So far, so normal. I can't remember the name of the magic moisturiser which was being promoted, which I must say seems both ironic and pleasing, but suddenly a line in the advertising pap leapt out at me "Der der der der der der der .... skin seems older..... der der der" with the exhortation to use whatsit and improve things. "Skin seems older"? Well hang on, if you wake up one morning and "skin seems older" that's bec...