Talking to people Hannibal Lecter style, ie through glass windows, is about to become well starred but only in situations not involving murderous prisoners. We're thinking talking to people arranging displays in shop windows, to someone in a bus, or maybe to a manager in their office who can't open the door for some reason. Brief regrets that you never learned sign language will flash through your mind - forget it, the person on the other side of the glass is thinking the same thing - the only way forward is to shout as loudly and slowly as you can in the vain hope they can hear.

Rude words on Post It notes are well starred all month.

Hotel room numbers 34, 56, 102 and any numbers with those numbers in (such as 134, 340, 3403) are spookily well starred this month; complimentary mints on pillows in any similarly numbered room will be especially lucky but only if crunched and not sucked.