Having been stuck in a snowy rut as others swept effortlessly past, I can appreciate a bit of what Tom Elliott must have felt as he learned of Peter Robinson's trip to the McKenna cup.
Peter Rehmer, an energy specialist at US-based technical analysts Elliott Wave International, said Opec was looking for a decisive price rise before it increased production.
Despite one heated exchange with Tom Elliott, the programme will be remembered as one in which Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness played a "nice man, not at all nasty man" double act.