Well, going on about the colour of the Queen's clobber suggests you must have been looking in on her. And it's the easiest thing in the world to avoid "the awful Royal sycophancy of the past week". I've nothing particular against the lady, but I don't seem to have actually seen much of it on telly. Not my kind of stuff.

"Don't go scratching it, it only makes it worse" is good advice in relation to quite a lot of sore spots.