one is available in a host of colours, including green, lime and yellow, and in Medium (£17) or Large (£26) sizes. You can even buy a funky Lego Man Storage Head (top left on books, £20).

, man!Joe's wardrobe: Green striped Long Johns by Mini Boden; Guitar by Paper Jamz

It’s a small world. Not in the jaunty, singing animatronic sense of the popular ride at the Walt Disney parks. But with cricket-on-the-green, choir-boys-in-the-chapel through and through Britishness. It all started with one man, a certain Mr Roland

of school history lessons consist of being bored to tears by endless dates and facts, then that may sound like a contradiction in terms. But Hastings is a man keen to blast away the cobwebs and make a clean break with the past, so to speak. "I want

. Small world, man…So, what about the fun stuff. Well, I loved the Kids' Area where they did some cool circus skills. Also bumped into songstress Sophie Ellis Bextor with her two boys, running in and out the rainbow dragon. While my mummy and sister were

. The security guys in the VIP tent told us that the boys were expected, but I couldn't wait around. Too much to see and do, man, so while my sister loitered I went on the rides and posed with a polar bear, crashed in the penguin bumper cars and laughed myself

Any boy who turns up on their first day of school sporting a straw boater and a yellow-and-lime-green striped blazer is bound to turn a few heads. And just a quick glance at the extraordinary array of equipment Marshall Armstrong sets out on his

.tartanheartfestival.co.uk 9. AUGUST 20–22 The Green Man, Brecon Beacons There’s a film tent, a campfire field, a science tent as well as The Flaming Lips, Cate le Bon and Billy Bragg. You’re even encouraged to bring your own instruments to join in jamming sessions around

, humus and raw carrots.If you could invite anyone to a picnic, who would you choose?I’d invite Stephen Fry – he’s a funny man and so intelligent.What are your style influences?I love iconography and I’m obsessed with symbols on old beer bottles

for Graham Greene’s classic film noir The Third Man, while for our children, it is the fairground rides of the Prater district which enthral. Vienna has museums to suit all tastes and ages, including a Children’s Museum, next to which is a waist