Rachel's World

Such was the power of footwear choice of Angela Constance, the MSP, who made waves at Holyrood earlier this week with her fawn sculpture, cherry- topped court shoes.

That's the collective sigh of parents waving their children off to school.

But have any of them struck a lightning pose with Usain Bolt, patted Kate Middleton's baby bump and had dozens of statues erected in their honour? No they have not.

Pub. Drink. Laugh. Dance. Kebab. Home. Was this anything like your weekend?

You can't even hear yourself think under the sound of their high-pitched shrieks.

From the people you sit near at work - the grazers, the 3pm chocolate fixers.

Where most people battle with breakouts, wrinkles, an uneven skin tone and those annoying dark coloured under-eye rings, Nigella Lawson seemingly wakes up like a smooth skinned doe-eyed vision of ethereal beauty.

And then there is The Street.

Just when the government tries to convince us that they're bringing them into line, they go ahead and cause more misery.