"We really feel the pinch with the heat. It's all very well to say have an ice lolly but sometimes you can't afford ice lollies," Liz says.

"One of my favourite bins is decorated like an ice lolly - it makes you want to litter-pick just, so you can use it," he said.

The child suffered a small burn, chest and leg pains after they reached to get an ice lolly from the freezer at a store in Warfield, Bracknell.

Here are directions from Britain’s Science Museum, which charmingly calls the little wooden flippers “ice lolly sticks”: bit.ly/pinball-box.

But the copper one licked a sharp Zoom ice lolly and studied the ice-cream chart.