The circles, which were ablaze with daffodils this spring, are now afloat with airy geum, cosmos, acidanthera and dahlias.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

Jukeboxed music segued easily from lightly bleached, textured jazz to soulful yet not too naughty rhythm and blues, and its cuisine was both tasty and tastefully overpriced.

Nevertheless, some work reports that black women are overrepresented, comprising up to half of the sectionings […]