Now, this is what I’m here for. You can always trust the good folk of the OBO to rally around in times of need. An email whooshes in from Adrian Armstrong, who is just up the road from me in east London:

“Morning Jim, hope this is the first of many. Shame about the rain – nobody wants to be twiddling thumbs at ungodly hours like these. So here’s what I hope might be a decent conversation-starter: what do viewers/readers have with their tea/coffee at times like these, and why? Sweet or savoury? Substantial or morselesque? I have an embarrassment of choice here in east London, and am tossing up between Tunnocks teacakes (did anyone else, other than my wife, call them “preacher’s pumps” as a child?) and mature cheddar.”

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