Pinarello Grevil+

Let’s play the game What Will £7,000 Buy You?. Perhaps you could opt for a sloping plot with planning permission for three houses in Pembrokeshire, or a gold and enamel portrait snuff box (possibly Jean-Louis Hauchard) circa 1780, or – as I have just discovered on a car dealer website – a 1974, 6.75-litre V8 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow in metallic brown.

Or £7,000 will buy you a Pinarello Grevil+ with no change. Not a single penny.

Exotically sourced

Grevil sounds like the phonetic spelling of how Borat would say ‘gravel’, but the more important part of the name is the ‘+’ on the