A brief respite from outside toilets and trains for a minute: instead, a moment of triumph. It’s like one of those moments where you complete the last level of a computer game, and look to celebrate it with somebody. But until the Internet came along, there was noone there. With a bit of luck, someone will click on this entry and will feel the pride coming through the screen.

Anyway, the reason for my happiness (and that’s how you spell it, Will Smith) is that since this morning, I’ve more than doubled my web access speed at home, and conversely - at least for the immediate future - I’m paying less for it! It took, from start to finish, five minutes. Three of them were reading posts online from people who had enjoyed similar success, the next eighteen seconds was listening to an automated message, and the remainder of the time was used convincing the man at the end of the line that Sky Broadband might like my business. Result!

Er, I’ll be miserable and toilet-bound again next time, no doubt. But I’m determined to enjoy one of the few points I score!