‘You’re lucky that I am not going to arrest you’ said the police officer as she slammed the door of her patrol car.

‘Oh, what’s wrong with our pink go-cart?’ I enquired in a fashion as innocent as I could muster. I knew only too well that the makeshift vehicle on which DM and I had just sped downhill at top speed was extremely dangerous.

‘It needs a strap’, the police officer told us.