I usually tend to avoid animation and cartoons these days. I’m supposed to be an adult, grown-up film-maker and writer – we’re not supposed to watch that sort of stuff. However, I just came across this review by Mark Kermode of the new Wallace And Grommit film, Vengeance Most Fowl, and now think it’s pretty high on my ‘to watch’ list. I have a pretty strange relationship with Wallace And Grommit: I remember watching The Wrong Trousers over and over again with my brother Luke my grandma and great-grandma. I must have been about nine or ten and too young to get most of the references, but my brother put it on ad nausiam.

Since then I haven’t given the franchise much thought, but after just watching Kermode’s review I’m suddenly won over. He says it’s highly cinematic and chock full of references. Frankly it sounded intriguing, and now I can’t wait to watch it. Perhaps I’ll watch it with John and/or Dominik: introducing either of my two Polish friends to Nick Park’s animation, so quintessentially British, would be utterly fascinating.