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For years, as an early-warning alert system, the county agricultural people had been hanging Medfly traps hither and thither among our pretty, fructiferous trees — little A-frame-shaped cardboard doohickeys with a dab of fly attractant.

The oldest “come hither” L.A. guidebooks in the Huntington Library archives are all about boosterism.

As a drama it comprises a busy, somewhat tiring eight hours as it veers hither and yon — there is a lot of veering — and characters fall out of and back into accord with remarkable speed and regularity, to keep things interesting.

The fear is essentially anyone who was not born with one functioning ding-dong with which to rule the world, planting seeds hither and yon.

Ms Holm has been missing from Hither Green, south-east London, since going to an off-licence on 29 June.