1) At the time of the article, I’d probably posted about 2,600 reviews. The figure of 5,000 was arrived at by adding those I’d posted in Britain to those I’d posted in America, but my policy has been to post each review in both countries whenever possible, but sometimes it isn’t.

2) I did some train-spotting in the sixties at a time when it was a very popular hobby and a very sociable activity. As I explain on one of my blogs, a crowd of us schoolboys used to go to the station and play cards in the waiting room, only interrupting the game when a train was due. Better than hanging around street corners and causing trouble, eh? But the journalist heard the phrase train spotting and ignored the context.

There were plenty of other errors in the article, but you get the message, I hope.