Two apologies due. The first to the two young Americans outside Holland Park station this evening. I gave you the wrong directions - completely wrong - to Beach Blanket Babylon. I got confused with another lookalike bar and thought that was it. Could n't have picked somewhere further away if I'd tried.

And it's not like I don't know the area I live in. After twenty five years, come on, you'd expect I could pick out where the local hot spots are? Hope you found your way to BBB in the end. Really embarrassed about that.

Second apology to me: spooning soup from the saucepan....hey, what's that about?