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As seen by Catherine Bennett

Mrs Cameron's Diary: We're playing Guess the Price of Things

As Well we have quite forgiven Nadders because without her Dave would never have invented the marvest game ever, working title Guess the Actual Price of Things, and I went to Anya, we are talking properly hilair, try to imagine something more addictive than charades but with hardly any violence, or not until Oik found naughty Jacob Rees-Mogg looking up bread on Ocado, but Nanny said not to worry, Jakie had been roasted lots of times before.

And Anya was like c'mon, how hard can it be, as winner of the Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year and creator of the iconic I'm Not a Plastic Bag, my middle name is sassy 'n' streetwise? I was like, OK, how much is a pint of milk, as in the classic plastic-bottled item? So there was this literally deafening silence until she went fine, if a Boris column costs £4,000 and basic pair of Louboutins is £800, given that neither is remotely beneficial to bone density plus milk is hand-crafted by actual English cows, maybe £395 for a calcium-rich must-have would still be amazing value when you think that a calf tote is also made by a cow and you cannot buy a decent one for less than £550?

Basically I was like soz, can you believe it is literally 46p, I mean, amazingness & does it not finally explain why poor Sarah Govey has to bath in it?

And Anya went fine, delete that, ask me another, and I went OK, what is the minimum wage, you will never guess but Mummy thought around two rupees, depending on the age of the child, and Honest Phil said she'd been robbed, and Francis Maude said as much as five guineas, thanks to Bob Crow.

Then Anya went, simples – 50p an hour – I went, try multiplying by twelve and she went NO, seriously, and I went YES, seriously, I would not believe it either if Hunty had not got his intern to find a cleaner and check?

Well of course Picklesy and Sayeeda are desperate to play, but unfort Dave is right, it would only take one know-it-all to spoil everything, and we would hate them to feel uncomfortable.

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