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Supersoakers were a revolution in water gun technology. No more running back to the tap to fill up your pissy little revolver, oh no. Strap ten litres of water to your body and blast your siblings away all day long.

I have a particularly vivid memory of a balmy summer afternoon near Bolton Abbey, visiting family friends -one of whom was a rather eccentric head master. After getting tipsy and complaining loudly about all the small hatchbacks that kept racing past his house playing dance music with the windows down, he saw us playing with a supersoaker and came up with an ingenius plan.

He offered us £10 to hide in the bushes and wait for the offending small cars to slow down to turn the corner. We then had to blast the anti-social youths that were spoiling the village aesthetic (a bit like Hot Fuzz, but less murderous).

Any small turf wars fought with water were always over as soon as one kid brought out the supersoaker. The only option was to join their side and hide behind them.