It's odd that so much has been made of Bill Clinton's friendships with the Hollywood crowd.

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Perhaps Mr Ashley's purchase is not so odd after all.

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It's an odd dichotomy that so many Ivy League engineers and designers were required to develop what, from a distance, seem like incredibly simple solutions to problems that many feel plague bike design.

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So here's what is odd.

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The government built the first school only a year ago, so most of Saridal's 400-odd residents have no formal education.

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So I don't think it's odd, or I don't say that their campaign was doing something unusual there.

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If Denmark were to join too, the euro area would cover almost all of the EU's member states, so Britain might once again look like the odd one out.

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Despite this, you soon get the "so-much-of-it" feeling - there's just so much to go round you think, that making a few footprints or taking the odd souvenir won't harm anything or anyone.

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But as the UK has got safer and healthier, the force-of-mortality has been decreasing for decades, so that life expectancy has been rising at about three months a year - it's odd to think we have been essentially ageing only nine months for each year that passes.

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This means that the entire drama has to be carried on the ample shoulders of the grown-up Senta, Orla Boylan, whose display of passion is so convincing that her odd wobble of pitch only adds to our conviction that she's determined to stand by and save her man.

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