Jonny McCambridge: The return of tales from the silly season - Big Jim from Corrie and late-night football viewing

By the time you are reading this, all being well, I will be abroad on holiday. The annual ordeal of getting burnt and eaten by mosquitoes is this year given a novel twist in that I am spending thousands of pounds I don't have to go somewhere where it is forecast to be not as hot and not as dry as back home.