Most mornings I’m up around 6am – Sundays included.

Radio 4 is particularly easy on the ear at this time of day.

So is it this channel that provides this astonishing scoop?

No.

It’s the rain-trails in the dirt of the van parked opposite.
I grab Klicky McKlikface (my camera – dunno, just seemed funny a few weeks ago)

It’s the SHAPE isn’t it – just LOOK at it.

Risking near certain death at the hands of partner who loves to sleep-in on Sundays, I fire-up Captain Bogey (my PC – dunno . . . just seemed . . . ), Firefox, Google, Maps and PhotoShop – then trace round the shape.

Next up the maps, and layer the tracing across Europe as we thought we knew it . . .

Something’s wrong isn’t it? Germany I know, Italy I know – but there’s a KNOB.
There’s a KNOB sticking out over there to the West.

Ahaa – the crafty buggers, BRETAGNE – of course.

So there you have it, the new shape of Europe, March 2017.

You heard it here first.