Either way this is not the best preparation for facing Australia on Saturday week and Wales will be looking for a very large cardboard box full of cotton wool for whoever is selected.
Lewis Hilsenteger from Unbox Therapy, he of bending iPhone 6 Plus fame, claims to have sourced two Ion-X screens from the Apple Watch Sport for testing and found that neither a metal implement such as a key or knife nor steel wool could scratch the screen.
Dressed in the seasons crisp grey suit and black wool polo-neck, with floppy centre-parted hair, he looks like a refugee from Boyzone, sleek and notably handsome.
Harvest, his latest novel, dramatises one of the great under-told narratives of English history: the forced enclosure of open fields and common land from the late medieval era on, whereby subsistence agriculture was replaced by profitable wool production and the peasant farmers dispossessed and displaced.
Among them is a project by the French artist Daniel Buren, consisting of 124 metal grids that were used for storage and transportation of mineral wool at the factory.
Another features a kitten sprayed on the remains of a wall, posed playing with a coiled ball of rusted metal as if it were wool.
When the couple finally emerged, having done their duty by sheep and wool, they were farewelled by three knee-high children with a last bunch of flowers and Mrs Dudley – God bless her – dropping into a curtsey.
Bernard Lagan, Australian correspondent for The Times of London, wrote: "Sheep on an outback farm were shorn of their dignity as well as their wool when a shearer swore at them, an animal rights group has claimed".
I think in fairness he pulled the wool over all our eyes.
Entitled New York Fantasy, this was a shamelessly sentimental, sepia-hued vision of New York style, referencing the kind of clothes one would expect in a 1970s Woody Allen film: chunky tweed jackets over pretty diaphanous dresses, mannish trousers paired with nippy leather jackets, delicate pleated dresses over thick wool tights.
Unfortunately, if he has a flaw, it's a weakness for a damsel in distress, and the more he comes round to Denton's point of view, the more I fear that she's pulling the wool over his eyes.
