Thank you, India

I tend to remember every nice thing that anyone's ever said about me. I'm shallow that way.

So imagine my delight when one of my fellow cottagers told me that I resemble this woman, India Hicks.

OMG.

It's not even remotely true, but I'm holding on to it like a kite in a gale.

Hicks is the granddaughter of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. She was a fashion model in the eighties and nineties and is now the creative director at Crabtree and Evelyn. She's got some ties with royalty.

I, of course, am the granddaughter of Jack of Temagmi. A canoe builder. I'm the creative director of my own belly button. I've got some royal ties to multiple recovery programs.

Anyway, it's nice to imagine, if even for a moment, that some of what he saw in me might be true.

Good bone structure is entirely an accident of genetics, but I'll take it. Thank you, India.