What is it about summer days and alcohol? It's an aphrodisiac to women from my neck of the woods. So let me tell you about a post-covid holiday with my girlfriends, long overdue and a really needed break from stresses. Sure, they are all mothers. So I don’t doubt they needed a lot more unwinding than me. We booked the break over a boozy lunch, one of those ones where we were only just given the go-ahead to socialise again...

So, I'm guessing that most marriages and bedrooms on Sunday mornings are similar to the lazy Sundays in our household. Before we have even got out of our bed, we have a contract of understanding, if you like, a simple acknowledgement of that weekly arrangement that we are so fond of, and who will instigate it first. Either it's me, turning around and away from him before edging back and closer to him, backing up to firmly...