Had just come in from mowing the lawn, Mrs D. said "Look at this !" It was unbelievable - I thought: " This can't be happening, it must be a spoof (like the famous pre-war "War of the Worlds" radio programme in the US". Not so.
Unrelated subject: I wonder, if you went out tomorrow and asked the first fifty people in the street "What's special about Monday's date", how many would answer correctly ? (or even more to the point, fifty schoolchildren).
D.