WHY I LOVE MY COLLEAGUES: I’m playing Morcheeba’s Big Calm in the office. I keep the tunes down, but there’s some leakage and I always tell my colleagues to let me know if it bothers them. The woman whose office is next door is feverishly finishing up a revision to a multi-volume treatise on trusts, so when she appeared at my door I was afraid I was bothering her.

“What’s that music?” she asked. “It’s great!”