Alex alerts me to the top notch tale of 81-year old Albert Skipper, who has had his finances taken over by Greenwich Council after he spent £6,500 on prostitutes in a 9 week frenzy of geriatric whoring.

"They are stopping my money because they don't want me to spend it on call girls," says the exhausted octogenarian, who now has to survive on £90 a week pocket money. "What do I want to save money for? I'm 81."

Fair point.

If he was capable of blowing (probably quite literally) more than six grand on ladies of easy virtue in a little over two months, a paltry ninety quid a week isn't going to go very far.

I might give him a hand(job)-out and send him a tenner with my best wishes.