My 2 year old son has already opened one present – a scooter, something to play with while the extended family are here. We took it around the roads near home and before long – dog muck. Harrogate is pretty bad for it, especially on cycle paths or the paths to the local playing field. It’s not nice to have to wash dog muck off your toddler – nor is it nice to carry him home on your shoulders only to get dog muck on your clothes.

Harrogate is also somewhere that dog muck grows on trees – in little plastic bags. There is less of this lately, but it is not good to see.