Last week, while watching news reports of weather warnings and more house price gloom, I was happily transported back to my childhood by a clip of Mickey Mouse, who has celebrated his 80th birthday. Did you know he was nearly called Mortimer? Apparently, not long before his black and white cinema screen debut, Mrs Disney declared that that was too stuffy a name, so she and Walt opted for Mickey instead. Anyhow, later that day I saw him again - though...