This country, lovely though it is, has one serious flaw.

There aren’t enough electricity sockets to go around.

For overseas readers, this is what a standard, smiley face socket looks like.

(Exhibit A.)

You do see sockets around.

Normally half way up a wall next to a door.

Just exactly where you don’t need them.

This means everybody has to go to IKEA to buy extension cables.

Hundreds of them.

And they cost a small fortune even if you get cheap ones.

We have twice as many as the Danes because when you plug in a UK plug, the adapter blanks out the next available docking position.

All these wires make for a right mess in our stylised, minimalist world.

And if they did Health & Safety over here, they become a very big trip hazard.