Last week I noticed, unprompted by Mick Hucknall, that money was too tight to mention. I looked around my room and located an Akai delay pedal gathering dust in the corner, so I put it up on eBay. Annoyingly, in the office I'm sitting in, any attempt to reach this URL to see how things are proceeding is met with a huge splash screen threatening disciplinary action from big men in smart suits upstairs. “SUSPECTED GAMBLING” it screams, like a Daily Mail headline. Surely eBay will never get so popular as to replace in our hearts such national pastimes as shoving pound coins in slot machines, or getting through to the final round of Bullseye. Anyway, if someone can tell me how the bidding is going, it would inject a note of meaning into my lunchtime.