After hearing news about men’s creches in shopping centres, Mix
offered champagne to the sender of the best example of
’turn-of-the-century malaise’.
The bubbly goes to Faith Legh, whose winning response described the
latest Japanese trend: virtual boyfriends, a Tamagotchi variation which
gives girls a year to mould raw bloke-ish material into a dream
hunk.
Sadly, even though this sounds perfect therapy for women waiting to
collect their menfolk from the creche, there are no plans to launch
Operation Boyfriend Makeover in the UK.