A single photon can spend a million years making the journey from the centre of the sun to it's surface, where 8 minutes and 20 seconds later some of them land here, on earth. Heck of a journey.

Trillions of the little fuckers just spent their entire million year existence waiting for the moment I pulled a chocolate digestive from its packet to impact on the surface of said chiccy biccy and turn it to a sticky slush in about 2 seconds flat.

Now, thanks to a story that started one million years, 8 minutes and 20 seconds ago, I'm sat here with chocolate covered fingers and nowhere to wipe them.