Every man has his price

I didn't think I did. But my friend Georgiana has just been in to thank me for proofing her PhD thesis on computational methods of automatically resolving time references in texts - and left me with a bottle of wine and £50 of book tokens. We agreed on the secret of completing your doctoral dissertation: it's never finished, you just stop.

I was hoping to be bought a pint on viva day, so I'm overwhelmed. There's a new minimum tariff. Who's next?