A warning to those of you who shop with Amazon and own an Alexa.

Mine started flashing yellow, the sign it has a notification. Generally this has been to tell me that a band I follow has new songs out, or that my account is due to renew and subscription.

Today however, my wife noticed it was flashing and started to ask what the notification was. I jumped in quickly just in case it was something relating to her mother's Day present.

When she left the room shortly after, I put the volume down and asked for the notification, and got the follow response:

"last month you purchased brand women's hipster briefs, would you like to rate them out of five stars"

There's no getting around that in a DADT relationship. I'm so lucky I was in the room, and Alexa didn't slap my wife with an unwanted truth.

So for those of you with an Alexa, go into the app on your phone, select settings, notifications, shopping, and then switch them all off!