Scotland – where else to be on a wet and windy week in May? Snuggled up in the lodge at The Macallan distillery on Speyside, the snow in the distance looked enchanting rather than a ghastly reminder that we were quite far north.

And listening to Ken Grier, brands director, discuss the finer points of Twitter was a revelation – how he met Heidi Klum at a party in LA, and the next moment their face-to-face had been posted as a tweet. Awesome! Every visit to the loo, chance encounter, meal-time chat can be ‘tweeted’ or ‘twittered’. Life as birdsong.

Driving in Scotland is pure bliss – like winding through a very long postcard – and the rivers and hills and valleys change as the contours of the land rise and fall. Men in waders fishing for salmon on the Spey, dark stone cottages and deserted harbours. Not much food though, most fish being flown from the water straight to Spain. We searched in vain for sustenance along bits of the northern Aberdeenshire coast.

All a big change from the party hosted by Bentley’s biggest UK dealer Jack Barclay in Berkeley Square recently. Bling-tastic (gorgeous Leviev diamonds glinting from big display cases) Breitling jet simulator machine in the basement, Stockinger safes (plus Dominik von Ribbentrop, the owner), ego laptops (an exclusive limited edition made for Bentley), Tanner Krolle bespoke bags, Harrods Aviation (private jets). The weather was kind and the food and cocktails organised by Collective Minds was tempting, served by beautiful people on stilts in costume, looking like flamingos or harlequins. All very fetching. Star of the show was our new Supersports car, posed centre stage in the showroom. Lucinda Lambton, the art historian, set the buzzers off when she touched it accidentally and I thought for a moment there had been a break-in. But she was just exploring the paintwork.

I couldn’t go to the next night’s JB party as I was invited to the FT for the book launch of a must-read analysis of the Middle East by my friend David Gardner, who is the FT’s chief leader writer and former Middle East editor. The book is called ‘Last Chance: The Middle East in the balance.’ Quite a contrast to the night before.