45 minute rural bus journey into Oxford. Villages twinkling out of the dark. Better appreciate it now – probably drunk for the voyage back.

The trouble with – oh, never mind.

@tomd I give it a week until mysterious bite marks appear on him

@Premiership_Kev oi Kev – is it true you’re a total mockney who actually went to Cambridge? More Footlights than the football?

Wondering whether two-year-old L would enjoy a chapter of ‘Premiership Psycho’ for his bedtime story.

@jpstacey rumbled. Trying to sell the fucker. Failing.

@jpstacey well, yeah, I *am* the kind of liberal arty farty pansy type who would do something like that

@Lisekit though obviously Trident would spare us all this daft maths!

@Lisekit also, value of dance/opera not in dispute, but isn’t literacy a bigger issue? And free means accessible to all. Not much free opera