How common am I?
From our UK edition
As someone who’s often been told how common she is, I take a close and proprietorial interest in the festive reveal of the most famous tea towel in the world. I speak, of course, of the blessed annual dishcloth printed with the latest list of Things Nicky Haslam Finds Common. Shall we count the ways? When I was at the Lady magazine, my proprietor’s mother, Mrs Budworth, would spout forth to journalists who flogged from London to her cheerless Suffolk seat in search of juicy knocking copy about the ninth editor. She’d expatiate over tea about how my family consisted of pushy nobodies compared with hers (the Mitfords were first cousins). ‘Who do they think they are?’ she would cry. We will come to that.
