Season the apple and parsnip mixture with salt and pepper, stir through the thyme and serve with the runny egg on top.

But that's assuming you want to eat shredded roast duck on a waffle with a runny egg and syrup and mustard drizzled over it, which you absolutely don't.

The best thing by a mile was the truffle egg toast, a huge slab of truffly cheese on toast with a hole in the middle containing runny egg yolk.

Use a spatula to push the cooked egg into the centre of the pan and allow the runny egg to fill the space.

Curse the brainstormer who invented the 'breakfast meeting', an ordeal through which people must look professional while masticating runny egg with one wary eye on the clock.