I am interrupting to say that this topic is the funniest thing I have read for ages. It was the introduction of the hamster that made me write, when I got my breath back!

I don't understand WHAT YOU ARE ON ABOUT with the maths, but as a hitchhiker too may I say I am shocked at the casual treatment of the banana. No one in Oz treats a banana in such a brusque manner..... since the cyclone in Queensland wiped out all the banana plantations they are priced higher than ever before!! They got to $19.99 a kilo in some places and they were the little squidgy ones not fancy ones.!!! No one would be ill-treating bananas here at the moment!

I await the next instalment of whatever this topic is.