I have managed to persuade a friend of mine to sign up for Tough Guy and she promises me that she’s sent off her entry this week. Of course, she also admitted that she didn’t understand it so failed to send any stamps off and didn’t send the right amount of money. I think it’s her subconscious trying to get out of it.

She then tried to persuade other people to enter while we were all at a dinner party on Saturday night. She opened with the line “I’ve just entered a competition with T. Do you want to do it too? You get to run through shoulder high nettles and everything!”

Unsurprisingly, there wasn’t much take up on that offer. Perhaps she should have mentioned that she’d be covered head to toe in mud and that might have got some of the men at the party off their arses to at least come and spectate.