I won’t bore you with explanations and apologies. The only thing I can do is promise, again, to do better and show you this Sunday cartoon from 1997, which you can’t see anywhere but here. I chose this peace offering partly because I think men and women can appreciate it equally. If it inadvertently offends anyone’s sensibilities in some way, I say don’t blame me: blame the marketers and fashionistas who come up with such piffle.

There is good news. Connectivity issues which have plagued me all summer have been resolved. Thanks for hanging in there, those of you reading this.