It’s been a great summer so far. We’ve actually had and are still having proper sunny summer weather. The national mood has been at an almost all-time high, we’ve had a Royal baby, a Wimbledon winner, an English winner of the US Open Golf, an emphatic Ashes cricket victory and economically, so we’re told, the dark clouds are beginning to clear.

Yes, things are going well at the moment. Such a shame that it’s all going to be tarnished by the return of the Sky TV – sorry, Premier – League football tomorrow. Overpaid prima-donnas behaving like spoilt children on and off the pitch whilst the tabloids greedily lap up and report every excess, as though we (or at least most of us) really give a damn. Oh well, at least there’s still some cricket left!