Bus Shelters and Bandstands...

If the title doesn't seem to fit I can only apologise and tell you the alternative title was "Getting to the root of the problem" with an even worse backup of "The Thinker..." But you might have smiled at the allusion to a couple of other Blippers' ongoing penchant for highly entertaining selfies.

This wasn't the shot I'd planned, but my intense, if slightly puzzled glance at the iPhone which was triggering the camera actually made for a better shot. And in consolation I have put a far more attractive woodland scene in as an extra, to persuade you to go Large on both of them.

I smile slightly at the rapidity of the u-turn our neofascist government was forced into this morning, in the face of vehement and scathing reportage and attack from the normally sedentary opposition. Changing the rules when your man's dodgy deals get caught is perhaps still a step too far.

Johnson might get away with the release of sewage into rivers and the tax advantage of internal air travel, even in the week he falls asleep at a climate conference, but none of them want another Inquiry into MPs' entitled corruption. Now then, how do I get down off this soapbox?