"And, yes, Ruth, whether or not you deserve it, it seems you are indeed being given a lot more opportunity from English people than I, a highly-trained English repatriate born here the day Alf Ramsey's English team won the World Cup of football, at the moment..."

The sort of opportunities you should be MORE entitled to because of an accident of birth, WAV? I've always known that one of the biggest chips you carry on your rather overburdened shoulders stems from a resentment that foreigners - "capitalist immigrants" - are in work (work you're somehow more entitled to?) when you aren't.

Well, love, maybe I get work because I'm good at what I do. Maybe you don't cause you're not (despite your BA and your tennis trophies). Harsh, but true.

Where either of us was born is irrelevant - and what football matches might have been taking place as my poor mum was squeezing me out, I have no idea.