Yes – it’s newsletter time – your little catch-up with what’s going on in the world of The Brothers Streep.  This is like when you’ve bumped into a friend in the shops, and you haven’t chatted for a while, so they start filling you in on things that you’re not particularly interested to hear about, but you don’t want to jeopardise your friendship, so you start to find yourself saying things like, “No no no, I’m not in a hurry, please do tell me more about how last week you discovered a tiny bicycle in your Chicken Cordon Bleu.”

A few years ago Dylan and I made the mistake of renting King Kong – a movie which is surprisingly dull for a film which won Oscars and incorporates dinosaurs and a giant ape.

“Come, let me buy you a drink...”

I have never used this line to try win the heart of any woman, but for some reason it apparently can work, despite the fact you’re effectively saying, “Come, let me try lower your inhibitions so that I stand a chance of this leading somewhere...”