You know you've gone beyond the world of politics and passed into the sphere of nano-celebrity when details of your shopping travails make it to the Popbitch mail-out alongside tales of Madonna's holiday to India and assorted unrepeatable nuggets of pop ephemera:
I saw Wales’ First Minister, Rhodri Morgan, at Riverside Food Market, Cardiff. He was telling the owner of a dog who’d just put its head in his bag of groceries, “I don’t think it’s right that you let your dog go round licking people’s bread."
And who can argue with that?