Farming Today is often informative and entertaining.

The information I gleaned from them this morning is that a single malt whisky has now emerged in Norfolk from its qualifying three years in oak casks.

The distiller surely hopes that Norfolk whisky will replace the morning cuppa by describing its taste and qualities as more characteristic of a "breakfast whisky" than an "end of the day whisky".

Perhaps NHS Lothian has had an early sample. This might explain why a letter confirming an appointment at the dental hospital was swiftly followed by another bearing the same date, the same reference number and the same signature threatening to pull all my teeth out for not having made an appointment.