• IF WE

are going into tier 5, whatever fresh hell that may entail, can it please involve a ban on obnoxious joggers? In the park on New Year’s Day, ambling quietly along with the dogs, I was practically flattened by a furious man in an all-black ensemble, his thighs reddened by the Arctic air, who passed so close to me, huffing and puffing and spluttering, that had I not been a middleaged woman I might have feared for my reputation. Why do some people think that just because their nether regions are encased in Lycra that they can ignore social distancing?