You might have missed this, but Sir Alex Ferguson retired. I mean, there wasn’t much coverage beyond pages 1-16 of certain newspapers, with a 10-page pull-out supplement.

The hallway required redecoration. This presented some particular challenges, according to the Estates Management and Maintenance Division, aka Husband. An outside agency would need to be brought in.

We’ve always been a cat-loving family – well, what I mean is, two of them live here.

ON the face of it, even I could manage this challenge – Edinburgh to the north of England on the train. All I had to do was buy a ticket.

In 1922, Howard Carter, the Indiana Jones of his day, discovered and opened the tomb of the boy king Tutankhamun, thus triggering one of the biggest tourist stampedes Egypt has ever seen. They still reap the rewards to this day.