The dissimilarity between the Miss Rush Hours’ is proclaimed by their choice of footwear. Pink for the Princess Eve and dark blue for my gamine Leah.

A late afternoon shopping trip to Covent Garden yesterday was a chance for Eve to have some special mummy time and she had a ball in the Crocs shop choosing the badges, or jibbitz, as they are apparently called.

Leah fully approved of the spider, bee, ambulance and fire engine her twin lovingly chose for her. Tomorrow they have a play date at their new school and Mr Rush Hour will be asked the inevitable question about how we tell them apart. Just look at their feet, he’ll say.