The prospect of an elusive " soft landing" has combined with hype over the productivity-boosting promise of artificial intelligence (AI) to give investors a fillip.
And it was this fillip that must have given the owner of our villa the confidence to show us Christ looking out at us, full face, unequivocally a man of power.
There are days wi' you, as wi' other folk, I suppose, when yo' get up and go through th' hours, just longing for a bit of a change — a bit of a fillip, as it were.