In my second year of Leeds Uni, I knicked a life-sized cardboard cut out of Mr Bean in a Karate suit from outside Barclays Bank during freshers’ week. He stood in my 2nd-floor bedroom window, often on guard duty with the curtains open as an anti-burglar deterrent when we went out.

Years later, we visited York Castle Museum and looked around their History of Everyday Life. I was quite tickled that the Edwardians put life-sized cutouts in their front windows when they went out for the same reason.