We were in a huge amount of trouble with L and T. They’d baked cakes and invited us to a tea party in Morningside at 4:30pm on Sunday. We ‘cancelled’ by telephone two hours ten minutes after the appointed time.

We failed to turn up as expected because instead we had spent most of the afternoon chatting to our old friend AW outside Mansfield Church, not far from where she lived as a PhD student in the early 1990s.