If you’d follow my tastes in Tomato Magazine you’d have discovered my views on chocolate. Incidentally, Fair Trade chocolate company Green & Black’s has been bought by Cadbury, which some people say compromises it on the ethical stakes.

The likelyhood is if you work at a desk you’ll have one of these lamps. Or you will at some point in your life have worked with or owned one of the many variations of the Anglepoise. I wrote this article after discovering the original patent for the lamp, the design of which is based on the articulation of a human arm, on the excellent Patent Office website in the UK.