There has been a slightly demob-happy atmosphere here on a number of issues.

Slight air of traders being demob-happy with Italy moves this week…

The demob-happy atmosphere was enhanced when Everton's goal fell.

But inside Penn is unbothered, costumed and made-up for the final time, clearly demob-happy.

That was followed, swiftly, by cold dread that perhaps I'd been a little too demob-happy when I wrote it.

There was a demob-happy feel to proceedings with the sun shining and the plaudits from a hammering of the French still ringing in the home side's ears.

The latest Bank of England minutes show that demob-happy Governor Sir Mervyn King voted to print another £25bn of sterling despite rising inflation.

The day after the Man Asian prize banquet in the Peninsula hotel, I met up with my partner in Manila, demob-happy after months of intensive reading.

As a demob-happy Member of the House, may I ask the Secretary of State whether he realises the absolute shambles that he has made of Territorial Army recruitment?

Contradicting demob-happy Sir Merv, Carney told an interviewer that UK companies "need to manage their business for the possibility of a slight or material change in the level of interest rates."

Everton's hopes of confirming themselves as Merseyside's top team this season were put on hold after this stalemate with already-doomed Wolves, where the gallows humour of a demob-happy home crowd often provided better entertainment.

The quintet's set-closing dash through the nagging, childlike melody of Ornette's "Dancing in My Head" likewise suggests the euphoria of players demob-happy at being released from some restrictive prison of rhythm.

A demob-happy crowd enjoyed a confident cameo by Slovakian winger Vladimir Weiss, 18, though the biggest cheer was for Brazilian midfielder Glauber Berti, who saw six minutes’ action after being an unused substitute 20 times.

If you've been following the alleged misadventures of the most decorated Olympian in history, then you may be tempted to conjure up a picture of demob-happy, flabby Michael Phelps, cannabis bong in one hand and lap dancer in the other, and imagine that this dessert must be the first temptation he's avoided since Beijing.