The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.

Bike instructor buddy Malcolm Palmer noted a few years ago that: "most SMIDSYs happen in urban situations, when the bike is travelling at 30 or under.

Once inside, people greeted ole Ian and Isabel with a lot more warmth than you might think, especially as Isabel's uppity reputation apparently had spread itself through the community like cow doodie over the vegetable garden.

‘Mavrone, mavrone! the man has died / While I slept in the chair’