I got into a heated debate with my friend Seeta the other day as we set out on yet another lengthy, socially distanced, wet and windy, pandemic-era walk around the park. She’s a fan of the hit Netflix series Bridgerton and was encouraging me to get into the period drama too. But, for some reason, I continue to resist. I told her that one of the turn-offs for me is the costumes. They just look so brassy and inauthentic! Seeta took the view that this is a laughably minor issue that shouldn’t prevent me from enjoying an otherwise truly excellent programme. She was too kind to say it but I could tell she thought I was being a snob.

Imagine my horror, then, upon reading a Conversation article that places me firmly on the wrong side of this argument and, indeed, the wrong side of history. In what is surely a delicious twist for the Seetas of this world, it seems that, when it comes to costumes, being historically inaccurate is, in fact, historically accurate. How deeply galling.

Seeta and I clocked up 13,542 steps on our walk, so despite our Bridgerton divisions, we worked together to surpass that hallowed 10,000-steps-a-day target. Heaven knows it’s a struggle to get there when living under lockdown. There are days when I barely scrape a few hundred. But if you, too, are finding it hard to hit this walking target, there is reassuring news. The idea that we should aim for 10,000 steps started as a marketing ploy for a particular brand of pedometer and doesn’t actually have much to do with reality.

Other key questions this week include: should we be switching up our face masks as the coronavirus mutates? Is learning the key to happiness? And, crucially, should grey squirrels go on the pill?

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