I know a number of you share your dreams and so I thought I'd ask two questions that have been bothering me for some years.

1. Do you dream in colour? I have mostly met people who dream in black and white, but my dreams have always been in colour.

2. Does anyone here dream in foreign languages? I do - past languages include [inter alios] : Latin, Welsh, French, German.... Norwegian (truly weird - I don't know what I was saying)

Yesterday it was revealed that the RAF managed to lose a practice bomb during fighter plan training. Nobody’s sure where it went, it just sort of ‘dropped off’ somewhere between north east Scotland and Northumbria. Pretty shocking stuff, eh?

Makes you wonder how they do it, particularly since a spokesman (where do they find these people? ) said that human error was not to blame. Presumably the bomb just got bored and decided to do a bit of exploring. The alternative – that it’s possible to drop a bomb without even noticing – is too horrible to contemplate.

But it’s not the first time the RAF have sustained embarrassing losses. Eight years ago, somebody reported a body in the sand dunes near Newborough in Anglesey. The police were alerted, a search was begun.

And then the RAF admitted (shamefacedly I imagine) that they’d recently lost one of their rescue dummies.

I rather suspect they eventually found the dummy and then put it in charge of the practice bombs…