It's not so easy as that to avoid. Many years ago, one of my staff went on a day trip to France to avoid Chucky and Di's wedding along with thousands of others. She told me when she came back that she and her husband were about the only Brits in Boulogne not crowded round TV shops watching the ceremony in the window.

No so! I, my partner and two friends were also in Boulogne that day and scrupulously avoided television shops.