According to Chris, our man with the latest (and the ‘mostest’), probably about a hundred people work on six-hour shifts around the clock (all apart from last Sunday, the first Sunday off since the breach) to make good the damage to the sea wall and railway line only a stone’s throw from where we live at Dawlish. The work is expected to be finished on the fourth of April – Chris’s birthday and, coincidentally, the date of my return from Australia.