Robert Plant, the former Led Zeppelin frontman who has gone on to enjoy a sedater breed of fame through his duets with US bluegrass singer Alison Krauss, also receives a CBE. John Martyn, who immortalised his fellow singer Nick Drake in the song Solid Air, gets an OBE.

As for esquivalience’s excesses, McKean made no apologies. Its inherent fakeitude is fairly obvious, she said. We wanted something highly improbable. We were trying to make a word that could not arise in nature.

Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.

Stops at Fareham, Havant and Chichester add to the cattle-like conditions aboard, although as the door nearest me is blocked by prams and suitcases, my coach is protected from the worst overcrowding.