Three weeks ago Tracee came into the NTI newsroom sporting what appeared to all observers to be a splodge on her bicep. We knew we shouldn't really ask and held out until lunchtime for when Billy came straight out with the burning question. "It's an eternal flame", she told us in response to his query, and Aarati sucked her teeth in the way Michelle M's Mum did when she was 15 and turned up home one evening with a red mark on her neck saying she had been hit by a golf ball.