‘what are you going to do with those old things?’ over a period of years, before finally admitting that the answer was ‘Nothing’ and donating them to a local youth music group. My theory is that all the phones I owned in that time heard me mention Orbital and developed the theory that I knew them.

..but with the crazy plan of creating one functional machine from the two. Reputedly, one of them was once owned by Orbital and used in their studio and live shows. Now, this may have been a tactic to extract the £50 I paid for the two, but I told the story anyway, to anyone who asked …

Paul Hartnoll keeps coming up on my ‘People you might know’ list. We’ve never met, I’ve not seen Orbital live, only know a little of their catalogue and don’t even follow them on social media. But - I’ve worked out why. I once bought two old Yamaha digital mixers, neither in full working order …

Good to see you and chat!

Its narrow valleys and steep sided gorges are practically impassable in places.

Camilla’s is an Eastbourne institution. Did you navigate the cellar?

It’s just given me more to bloody read! If I get beyond p8 before the weekend now it’ll be a miracle. The struggle is read.