Maybe this is fairly exciting and maybe it’s a disaster waiting to happen but Spielberg and Peter Jackson are making a trilogy of Tintin films together. They’re going to use motion capture – so in effect it will be real people made to look like a cartoon.

Also, Dod and Liv: I have been to badminton club on Mondays three times in a row and found it to be most excellent. Waiting times are almost nothing whereas excitement levels are pretty high. Fairly steap at £5 a time though. And anyway Dodman, I assume from you diagram that you have severed you two in twain.