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He likened Clark’s skills to those of Johnny Mercer, the Tin Pan Alley icon who wrote “Moon River” and co-founded Capitol Records in 1942.

According to Huffington Post reporter Jonathan Nicholson, he responded to the news with an incredulous "Are you sh**tin' me?"

Family friends recommended Kendamil, which costs £15 a tin and lasts his son about a week.

"I was writing about six people trapped in a tin can. It felt like there was something resonant about that and our experience of lockdown, of not being able to escape each other and also not being able to get to other people."

Each tin also contains a guide packed with growing tips and fun facts abiooout the flower; for instance, the person who first introduced the California poppy to the scientific community in the 19th century was German naturalist Adelbert von Chamisso; the year it became California’s state flower was 1890.