The ultimate origins of iron in east Africa, then, must remain conjectural, though a spread from Meroe up the Nile to the Lake Victoria region is the most plausable route at the moment, and Meroic furnaces and tool styles are similar to those in East Africa.

The curatoriat chooses something, points to it and in a convincing manner says: This is great art. Great art is exemplified and canonized. Art becomes exemplary because the curatoriat often displays it as an example when an artistic form or trend requires documentation.

Think it's an ingrained hangover from home days, and school days, with you watching Glenroe on the telly, and me at the kitchen table, doing my ecker, with Bowsie at my feet.

He ordered a schpritzer for himself (it was a hot summer day) and after she'd finished her Collins, he asked if she wanted to order.