The current favourite in Downing Street to take on Mr Brown is John Reid, the forceful home secretary.
Above the front door of the new building there should be a biblical quotation, from Matthew 25:35 (not John, Mr Brown) .
Mr Brown and journalist John McCarthy are both due to deliver lectures at the National Library of Scotland.
It had all looked so promising on Monday for those who might want a contest when former minister Michael Meacher stepped aside and called on his supporters to back Campaign Group leader John McDonnell as the man to challenge Mr Brown for the leadership.
It has been reported Mr Brown suggested a visit could coincide with the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman - a famous British convert to Catholicism, who died in 1890 - expected within the next two years.
Labour's Christmas from hell was visited upon it by personal grievances, notably Mr Brown's grievance at not becoming party leader after the death of John Smith, and his continuing ambition to grab the top job one day.
Little wonder that many senior members of Mr Blair's cabinet, including John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, Gordon Brown, the chancellor and Jack Straw, the home secretary, have let it be known that they would prefer to stick with the current first-past-the-post system.
John Prescott, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and Robin Cook have all performed to Mr Blair's satisfaction, give or take a few ups-and-downs.
Will Mr Brown confirm, in words or body language, the claim of his erstwhile rival, John Prescott, that chancellor and deputy prime minister are now thick as thieves in a partnership of Keynesian demand-managers?
Many donated money to the kind-hearted Mr Brown for taking care of him and almost all dined in the next door restaurant owned by a John Traill.
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