One newly-appointed City head chose the recent drizzly bank holiday to run riot in the glassware section of Habitat, taking advantage of a 20% discount voucher in The Observer (and there was The Diary thinking City lawyers were right-wing porcelain fiends who got paid a bundle).

However, the partner’s idyllic long weekend was shattered when a seasonal deluge compromised the integrity of his signature Habitat paper bags. A hundred yards outside the door, said bags promptly split, engulfing the partner in a thousand shards of cut-price cut glass.