Mrs Steve and I stepped outside at eight to cheer and applaud the front-line workers of the NHS, the supermarket workers, the carers and the teachers. We're a quarter of a mile from neighbours and we thought we couldn't be heard, in spite of our hollering on top of the clapping. But I thought I heard voices... I shushed Mrs Steve, and sure enough we heard a response... from the two donkeys up at the farm, who started braying like mad when they heard us. It was great to hear that the animal kingdom are on our side...

...Then I came in to see the arch-hypocrite Tory Hancock on Question Time wearing his NHS badge... I refused to be downcast... I reckoned that those donkeys had their finger-equivalents on the pulse far more than these Tory degenerates have...