What have Belize, Benin, Burundi, Lesotho, Chad, Sudan, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Libya, Yemen, Bolivia and Rwanda in common? Nobody in any of those countries has read so much as one of my blogposts.

Come on, folks, they’re non-toxic, alcohol-free and easy on the digestion. Gib’ a kook, as Grandma would have said. Or ‘ave a dekko, if you prefer.

I’d like to say, as a much more exalted writer than I put it, “their sound is gone out into all lands, and their words unto the ends of the earth.”