Spring is here and the warmer days and lighter evenings give a sense that it is time to look our best; mowers are stirred from their winter rest.

Those of us that remember with joy, either by having seen the original TV screenings and/or the repeats, of those many times in Dad’s Army when Corporal Jones exclaimed the words *Don’t panic, Captain Mainwaring!” will have appreciated that they would not have calmed the situation.