Colm O'Regan: ‘I love you twenty-sixty times’ — lyrics by a three-year-old that became a viral hit

Linguists, cryptographers, and, for the last 200 years, poets have all taken nonsense very seriously

The end product is, of course, all levels of doteyness, but the father is a proper musician who treats the child’s words with as much seriousness as if he’d been handed something scribbled by Joni Mitchell or Paddy McAloon.

We all have our little tricks to get us through the heavy moments. We should probably face down our problems. But there’s no harm in taking a little break.

My weekly self-care holidays are watching Troy Parrott’s latest goals for AZ Alkmaar, David McGoldrick turning back time by making eejits out of whoever Barnsley are playing, and mini surreal pop masterpieces created by music lecturer Stephen Spencer, with the lyrics taken from stories made up by his toddler daughter.