Last week Archie was sitting disconsolately on the steps of the Douglas Hotel, wondering when the rebuilding work would finish. Linda from Troon and Morag from Shiskine were first correct and Fiss said: ‘Archie, you are in breach of health and safety; where is your hard hat?’ Phyllis from California said: ‘I don’t know where he is, but give him a pat from me.’ This week he is sitting in the snow, but where is that slope behind him?