For the past nine months, the Ford Fiesta has been the best selling car in the UK.
We had a lot of trouble with our pumpkins this year. They were really useless, and I know why: it was something to do with the seeds. We bought a packet of rather expensive ‘hybrid T 1’ seeds, there were only six seeds in the packet, which cost almost thee pounds. I had great hopes for them. But something had gone wrong with the hybridisation process and the plant reverted rather than went forward. As a result the crop was strange. We should have got a kind of bluey grey bell-shaped fruit, but we got this yellow lemon shaped one as well as other round green and orange ones. None of the plants grew well, and were generally pathetic. If I had kept the packet I would have complained because, as I said, they were not cheap seeds. A case for Sherlock Holmes to solve, maybe.