As a country, we English do grey very well. We’ve had the grey man for a prime minister, backed up by the men in grey suits; plenty of grey areas in our legal system; our film industry was probably at its pinnacle when movies were made predominantly in black and white (all right, I know, Hammer Horror films… but the colour in those was all so magnificently artificial) and women in grey populate our haunted homes. Is it bloody surprising? I mean where was the colour today? I looked and I looked and in the end all I can say is thank heavens for the Cheeky Chicken take away in West Street. I’m not saying I was hungry, but I was desperate for a bit of colour. There certainly wasn’t any up there in the sky.

On a more structural note, have a close look at the penultimate image in today’s contact strip. Now look again. Someone didn’t read the instructions properly did they?