This morning, on a particularly tedious tube journey across London, I found myself reading the horoscopes in the free paper.

The following line in my forecast caught my eye:

‘Your personal life is subject to a proposal, which will shock even you!’

The first thought that entered my head was, could Neil Diamond be about to realise the error of his ways? Then various other, more x-rated visions started flitting before my eyes.

Let me tell you at this point that crowded tube carriages mid rush hour are not exactly conducive to fantasies of a carnal nature, unless of course you have a penchant for sticking your face in smelly armpits or being told to ‘mind the gap’.

Anyway, I then got to thinking that it might be fun to conduct an experiment. Every day for the coming week I am going to log down my horoscopes and report back on whether or not they come true. 

Off now to await my ‘shocking’ proposal!