The thing which sprung to mind when JP claimed Greenpeace was frightening his wife, was that famous Jane Austen comment about the wife who was brought to bed of a dead child owing to a fright some weeks before "I suppose she happened to look unawares at her husband". The immediate assumption has got to be that anyone who actually lives with John Prescott and looks at him everyday, would take an awful lot more than a few Greenpeace activists to frighten.