HELLO and welcome to the first of my jaunts into the jungle we call life.

I’m currently in the midst of a house move and as I don my old clothes and fill up the black bags it all seems so far away from the weekend when I got all dolled up to attend some swanky events in Glasgow.

Mind you, I temporarily swapped heels for big black boots as I traipsed across the snowy town to head to the Action For Children Women of Influence Lunch at the Grand Central Hotel on Sunday.

Andy Murray’s famous mum Judy gave me a warm welcome and was on great form as she watched Elaine C Smith tell jokes and sing at the high-powered bash, which raised over £60,000 on the day.

Judy, who won the award last year, told me exclusively that Andy was “gagging” to be back on court and had started hitting balls as he recovered from injury. She said all a mother can want for her sons is to be fit and healthy.

She also talked about her recent ski holiday which gave her a bit of downtime amid all the chaos but admitted she’d unfortunately been ill for most of it with the dreaded lurgy.

Judy is always game for a laugh and she was chuffed to bits when comedian Elaine gave her a signed copy of the Glasgow Gruffalo in Weegie dialect for Andy’s eldest daughter Sophia. It’s a pure belter of a book co-written with Julia Donaldson.

The former Strictly star, whose own tome Knowing The Score is about to be released on paperback, revealed Elaine is a big tennis fan who plays regularly at Mount Vernon.

Judy donated generously to the event and also said she fancied bidding for TRNSMT and Scotfest music tickets in the auction but admitted they clashed the tennis season so she couldn’t go.

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Jo Malone – the actual person, not the product –came to Glasgow’s Princes Square on Friday to meet customers of her new fragrance line.

The perfume and candle legend has launched a new range called Jo Loves with Space NK and she talked about how hard it was to take time out of the business when her company was bought over.

She also revealed she came up with her new red dot logo herself after designers failed to deliver one she liked.

She’s back with a new line of fragrance that comes with its own paintbrush – so you can literally paint yourself with a smell. I loved her White Rose and Lemon Leaves Gel with brush attached. She put it on me. It’s not everyday the woman behind the scent is your personal make-up artist!

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US comedy and Deuce Bigalow star Rob Schneider played Oran Mor last week and was staying at the Hilton Grosvenor. Rather than walk across the road to the venue he was chauffeur driven from one door to another – less than fifty metres away!

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BACK to Elaine C Smith, and she has revealed she might be behind Nicola Sturgeon’s recent outfit changes.

Appearing at the Action For Children Women of Influence lunch she let slip that she mocked Nicola’s penchant for trouser suits in front of the First Minister herself.

She said: “I was saying how a wee wifie said she liked her but wasn’t sure about her trouser suits. Nicola hasn’t worn her trouser suit since I did that gag.”