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I’ve developed an interest in community owned shops. They’re growing in popularity; there’s even one at Ambridge. But in Norfolk, my home county, there are currently only three. Suffolk, our neighbour and traditional rival in so many ways, has six. That’s reason enough for me to ask a few questions.

The Sorites paradox is thus: in removing individual crystals, at what point is a mound of salt no longer a mound? The paradox talks in increments. The issue is about scale and structure. The interesting thing about mounds are actually the void spaces between crystals. They enable different configurations of crystals to find some stability. Structure emerges. Without these spaces, the mound wouldn’t work: the thing you don’t see couldn’t hold the structure together. This is about purpose and meaning.