Uborka prefers not to rattle a collecting tin at its readership, however it seems important to me to sponsor Pix on her 17 mile walk around London for the Metro Life Hike, in aid of Maggie’s Centres, which help people with cancer to be as healthy in mind and body as possible and enable them to make their own contribution to their medical treatment and recovery.

This is not because my life has been touched by cancer; so far I’ve been lucky enough only to lose people to heart attacks and alzheimers. It’s because I know the state of Pix’s legs, and if she’s determined to do this, then it must be pretty damned important to her.

She has to raise £250. Help her.