Please somebody, give TV presenter Llewella Bailey a spare set of keys that she can hide under some plant pot in the garden
It wasn't so long ago that, after some long-into-the-night bash, she had Birmingham Chamber chum Tony Bell clambering through a window in a bid to gain entry to her own home.
Now my spies tell me she got herself locked out yet again.
This time round I am told she had to resort to a locksmith. She'd managed to lock herself out of the bedroom – a somewhat new variation on the theme.
Stood there in her pyjamas – sadly no racy photos are available.
La Bailey, though, was taking a phlegmatic attitude to her predicament, wishing late criminal lawyer husband Martin had been on hand.
"He would just have got some of his clients to pick the lock," she is said to have declared.
Certainly a cheaper alternative!
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Sadly, I have to report the record-breaking has continued in the John Bright Trophy, Birmingham’s corporate cricket tournament, thanks to the weather gods.
This year’s competition opened on May 1 with a record entry of 17 teams. But this week's less welcome new ground was broken when all three scheduled John Bright Trophy matches had to be postponed because the square at the picturesque Britannic Park ground in Moseley was too wet.
The early morning rain on Thursday meant it wasn’t possible to prepare a pitch for the evening match between trophy holders PricewaterhouseCoopers and Challinors.
Add on the two rained-off matches the previous week, this meant no less than five consecutive trophy matches have been postponed.
Tournament organiser Ross Reyburn, a former Birmingham Post features writer, and a mine of useless information, cannot recall two consecutive matches let alone five being cancelled in the four-year history of the tournament sponsored by fund managers Williams de Broe.
“The irony is Britannic Park is probably the best-draining cricket ground in Birmingham if not Britain,” Ross tells me. “Its entertainingly quirky slope is a class above what Lord’s has to offer.
“Normally the square gets dry in a just few hours even after a downpour. But there has just been so much rain in the past ten days the square has had no chance to dry – I’ve never seen it so wet.”
The good news for tournament teams is that Ross, who has the happy task of re-arranging the matches, is no longer the only journalist in Britain without a mobile phone. The bad news is he has yet to reach the breakthrough stage by managing to send his first text message.