The thought of eating another chickpea-based meal sitting under the stars with the camels was too much for me. I would so much rather eat steak pie in the John Lewis staff canteen (now open to the public).

‘Tabloid blindness’ was a well known syndrome. Pregnant women were losing their sight so that their unborn babies would not be blighted by Hello magazine or the Sun newspaper.

My hula hoop had collapsed in on itself.