One way to get to a meeting early is to switch off that bit of your brain that deals with telling the time.

Last night, I managed to glance at an analogue clock, look at the digital clock in the car, listen to the tail end of Just a Minute and the Seven O’Clock News and get most of the way to my destination before it dawned on me that I should have been aiming for 8pm! D’oh!

The extra hour was not lost though; it was time enough to find a grassy bank in South Park and read a few chapters of a book while enjoying the sunset highlighting Oxford’s dreaming spires and still to arrive comfortably early for the gathering I was headed for!