As you might expect, the dessert course is the best: bread pudding, apple strudel, brownies, Snickers pie, yogurts, malts, shakes, and ice cream.

There’s a pan loaf courtesy of Pat the Baker, cans of Coke courtesy of Pat the Barman, six individual pork pies, a bag of funsize Mars bars…

When a sincere man marries a wife, he has one or two courses open to him, which he can pursue with that wife. He can propose to himself to be (a) the lord and master who is honored and obeyed, (b) the perfect lover, (c) the true friend and companion. Of these (a) is now rather out of date. The lord and master has been proved, by most women quite satisfactorily, to be no more than a grown-up child, and his arrogance is to be tolerated just as a little boy's arrogance is tolerated, because it is rather amusing, and up to a certain point becoming.

The radar system is playing up again.