Cricket teas survive man-made disaster, now for Planet Earth

While Cop3o gathered trying to save the planet as the Doomsday Clock ticks towards midnight, so a similar summit was taking place in North Tyneside with the fate of another much-loved body at its core... the humble sausage roll.

- with Richard Ord

Well, not just sausage rolls, but also limp cheese savoury sandwiches, a handful of Tunnock’s teacakes, two dozen mini pork pies, any number of Mr Kipling fondant fancies and maybe a gallon of freshly brewed Typhoo, otherwise known as the typical cricket tea.

While our planet is put in peril by man-made catastrophes such as pollution, global warming and rampant overconsumption, so the traditional cricket tea is hanging by a thread due to that age-old man-made threat of, erm, rank laziness.