An Australian pensioner lost his entire savings in a Balinese poker con, prompting the local authorities to warn tourists not to fall for the same scam.

Growing up in a small Welsh Valley of 3,000 people makes you a little sheepish, and I’m not talking about the strange habit of sticking the back legs of the white fluffy things inside wellies and pushing them towards the edge of cliffs as your underpants accidentally fall due to the wind.

It’s a safe place.

It makes the world at large frightening.