Oh no I say not that ordinary decent working- class Michelin-starred caff on

Oh no, I say, not that ordinary, decent, working- class, Michelin-starred caff on Park Lane run by celebrity chef Nico Landenis again! What a bore “Their favourite restaurant,” I am told, rebukingly Sometimes I can be very snotty, I know. And without good reason, because frankly a Harvester is usually enough of a treat for me. Were they decent people caught in a media feast, or a couple on the make? They were happy to explain …with lunch and taxis provided, of course

Mandy “Eight Babies” Allwood and her boyfriend, Paul Hudson, have an agent called Kizzy who says, yes, I can meet Mandy and Paul. Good, I say, because I really do want to find out what they are actually like. When Mandy announced that she was pregnant with octuplets and was determined to keep them, a tabloid paid her and partner pounds 350,000 for their story She eventually lost them all.

Meanwhile, huge reserves of oil have been found in Newfoundland’s notorious Iceberg Alley, and $5bn of research has gone into producing the world’s first berg-proof oil platform.. The International Ice Patrol, set up after the Titanic disaster to monitor ice movements and paid for by 17 countries, covers half a million square miles of ocean, but lives continue to be lost as shippers ignore their advice. Menu includes blinis, devils on horseback, Portuguese cod cakes and Brazilian bean fritters, plus a joshing, singing and a good deal of hearty wobbling The series deserves to run and run, unlike its presenters. Equinox (9.00pm C4) Icebergs: one of the least controllable of natural phenomena.

We’ve tried to destroy these shipping hazards with bombs, guns and, believe it or not, black paint, but in the end the best way devised to avoid being sunk by one is to not go near it. And he could have worked that one out: after all, he knew that motion created heat.Tomorrow, a more modern view of cloud formation.. Two Fat Ladies (8.30pm BBC2) A new series of the good-time food programme returns, with the irrepressible Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright leaping back on their bikes and pulling up in front of the Brazilian Embassy to cater for the ambassador’s reception without the use of gold-wrapped bonbons. It was perceptive of him to notice the difference, but it never occurred to him that most rain started life as frozen globules of ice, which melted on its way down. Since we now know that warm air can hold more moisture than cold, we must side with Anaxagoras on that point.Aristotle was wrong, too, about the cause of large raindrops as compared with small drizzledrops.

He says this happens when the cloud has risen into the cold air.”Both were right in their realisation that rain is likely when a cold front meets a warm one, but Aristotle believed that the rain then came from the cold cloud, while Anaxagoras maintained that the cooling of a warm cloud was what led to the release of water. Violent showers, he reasoned (incorrectly), must occur when condensation takes place quickly. That, he decided, was when a cold cloud descends quickly into warm air; “though this is the direct opposite of what Anaxagoras says. “The exhalation of water is vapour; air condensing into water is cloud. Mist is left over when a cloud condenses into water, and is therefore rather a sign of fine weather than of rain.”So he understood the difference between water vapour – which is a colourless gas – and the small water droplets that form clouds. “The moisture is always raised by the heat and descends to the earth again when it gets cold …

when the water falls in small drops it is called drizzle; when the drops are larger it is rain.”On the matter of heavy storms, however, Aristotle made a big error in disputing the views of another philosopher. Another reason that the sun heats us is because “the fire surrounding the air is often scattered by the motion of the heavens and driven downwards in spite of itself”.In Aristotle’s model, “the moisture surrounding the earth” is made to evaporate and rise by the sun’s rays. Instead Aristotle contented himself with an explanation that the sun could heat us because of its closeness and rapid motion, while the stars could not do so because they were so far away, and the moon was no use because, although close, it moved so slowly. We see that motion is able to dissolve and inflame the air; indeed, moving bodies are often actually found to melt. Now the sun’s motion alone is sufficient to account for the origin of terrestrial warmth and heat.”Given a little more time and a more flexible theory, he would have been well on the way to producing a theory of conservation of energy and an explanation of how kinetic energy can transform into heat.