Feeling all in a slather

of There’s a little bit its rays sunshine casting gorgeous, over the incredibly Karius, the Liverpool ultra-stoic Loris only worst game when goalie who had his to his do, contributing his very best would Real Madrid in the team’s defeat against Final. Champions’ League one of the top He’s been voted players in the two most dateable Premier League. but when OK, it’s not much, been your self-esteem’s a battered, it’s surely bit of a tonic. Come on!

When I look at my ageing face in the bathroom mirror, I curse my teenage self and the hours I spent in the sun in the famous summer of ’76 when the UK was dry March through to September.

I spent most of those months in the garden with my face – slathered with cooking oil or butter – pointed directly at the relentless sun. It was the only summer I’ve ever turned nut brown. Just a warning to the teens and twentysomethings I’ve spotted similarly sun-worshipping on my local common – there’s always a payback. A wrinkly, ageing, sun-damaged payback.