It was the tactile nature of the Fairtrade De Bos labels launched last week at Luke-Dale Robert’s Pot Luck Club that raised a laugh when Bosman marketing maven Neil Buchner (below) compared the feel to that of the balasmandjie depicted on them.

Which reminded me of the question raised of English poet Wystan Hugh Auden (below). “If his face is that wrinkled, whatever does his scrotum look like?”