Starting projects later than planned was a signature move of ours, which pushed us into the realm of slaphappy and barely able to focus before our finish line was in sight.

“Nutty, slaphappy, goofy” was how her friend Mitchell Leisen summed up Irene, recalling how Lombard strove to make sense of a woman whose words “lacked continuity, were unrelated and without thought”.

I hope I’m not giving too much away by saying that episode three of Netflix’s slaphappy romantic reality show Love is Blind opens with a proposal.

Having fitted his kit with old-fashioned calfskin heads, Starr’s sturdy, slaphappy drumming achieves a newfound warmth and depth.

Given a choice, we’d probably prefer to be slaphappy all the time, and there are advantages to that pleasurable state.