If you're feeling very patient, Christine, you could always play the long game (with overtime, extra innings and all that jazz) and wait for him to grow out of it.

For me this happened some time during my fourth decade on the planet, so admittedly it can be a very looooong game.

And judging by the number of old codgers watching Real Madrid-Barça in my local bar, bottle of San Miguel in one hand, incontinence bag in the other, it may well not be worth the wait.

The Aussies have an imaginative solution to everything. Any nation that can invent kangaroos and platypuses single-handed clearly think well outside the box.

We should put them in charge of solving climate change. Then again...