On a recent trip to Pins & Needles on Manhattan's Upper East Side ( explore the store with me here ) I came face to face with...

Oh, the factories may be roaring with a boom-a-lacka, zoom-a-lacka, wee, But there isn't any roar when the clock strikes four, ev...

... but fortunately on this occasion, Benjamin Franklin was proved wrong.  My son, Joe, has just visited us from London with his girlfriend...