Street Life

Michael in Salford brings us this hat-and-glove combo, left on top of the mailboxes in his apartment building.

Michael says: 'What is slightly odd is that they are almost identical to those owned by a friend in the building – but they are not hers. Our current theory is that a doppelganger is slowly taking shape. We are expecting a coat next.'

This is a chilling notion, I think you'll agree, but one that we must take seriously. In a laboratory, this kind of metamorphosis is probably called glovagenics. Here, who knows? Glovalogical mutation?

In other Salford news, Michael tells us that the cobbles visible outside were once used in an episode of Coronation Street. It gladdens my heart to think that those stones may have come into contact with the Hush Puppies of one of my personal heroes, Roy Cropper.

Roy Cropper would not be so careless as to lose one of his gloves.