'It's not so much that it is freezing cold, I'm still bogged down with sorting my mortgage out following the ill-fated mini-budget, that half the country's on strike, and the postal strike in particular is preventing me from accessing my money.'
"What's new?" some of the less kind of you will no doubt be saying. I'm aware that one or two of you mistake my healthy scepticism for curmudgeonliness.It's not so much that it is freezing cold, I'm still bogged down with sorting my mortgage out following the ill-fated mini-budget, that half the country's on strike, and the postal strike in particular is preventing me from accessing my money.
At least I'm not in too much pain, but my dentist has advised me that will no longer be the case when my anaesthetic wears off. Normally, he recommends ibuprofen, but I can't take that because of my heart medication.Oh, Merry Christmas, by the way. Still, clutching for anything to be positive about, there is a line of thought that we are at our most creative when we are in discomfort. Indeed, the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch felt that his own troubles were central to his talent, and that he would never want his torment to end. Then again, he spent most of his life in and out of psychiatric hospitals. And something tells me this column is not going to go down with The Scream when it comes to our respective legacy in the world of art.
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