While sulking in a corner (such a useful activity) you might puzzle out who Mr Bleaty and I were talking about. The subject was, after all, killed on a US roadside.

As for "really serious matters", I have another gripe to lay at the door of the transatlantic cousins. A decade ago I was driven demented by the proliferation of those luggage trolleys infesting the island of Manhattan, tripping up all and sundry. Now they're here. Everywhere. Used as offensive weapons against ordinary pedestrians.