Which is why it came as something of a hideous surprise when he was called up to serve in the Finnish army just before his eighteenth birthday – and there was no legal way out, despite him barely speaking a word of the language.

So off he went, and he seems to have had a whale of a time – and of course virtually all Finns speak fluent and idiomatic English anyway, so that wasn’t a problem at all.

Which, come to think of it, isn’t that much less than the British Army these days…