Of course, you will already have noticed how my near genius - well, I don't like to boast, you see - shines through the elegant but piercingly insightful prose with which this blog is absolutely packed. I'm sure many of you have wondered how just one mind could contain so much high intelligence, er, you have wondered, haven't you? Yes, of course you have! Anyway, The Daily Mail has given away my secret, dammit. The answer is simple, it is necessary to be dead idle and more than a bit thick. That might sound like a contradiction but not according to some swots from Sussex University who have researched the subject - although they never asked me! - and come to the conclusion that in the end the habit of multi-tasking turns you into a vegetable, where-as, if you are incapable of ever doing more than one task at a time, and then only with a good, long rest in between, and if in addition you have never really mastered how to use tools of any description, except perhaps, hammers, then your brain has time and space to do what brains are supposed to do - think! So that is the secret of my genius, folks, idleness and incompetence! Pugh's cartoon with the Daily Mail article is spot on and he's really captured my likeness: