I have learnt from the women around me – my grandmothers, my aunts, my senior colleagues and friends. Today, as the older woman in the board room, the powder room and the drawing room, I want to tell the younger lot a simple mantra that I was not taught and in fact taught exactly the opposite. It is to get off the carousel that insists you need to impress. Please do not marinate yourself for hours in your own juices and crisp your skin for it to crackle under someone’s teeth.