" Its almost as if he's been hit on the dead with a cricket bat,' observed Samantha.
'It's worse then that,' said Nanny Piggins. 'When you hit someone on the head with a cricket bat, the sharp pain and the flowing blood let them know something is wrong. But then a man is dazzled by a beautiful woman, he doesn't realise he has gone temporarily insane. The opposite happens. He suddenly thinks he is the funniest, cleverest man ever to walk on earth. Really, when single men start dating they should all be locked up in lunatic asylums. "

― R.A. Spratt , Nanny Piggins and the Wicked Plan (Nanny Piggins, #2)