We are readying ourselves for our ‘holiday’ to London for the festive period. It feels strange, doing things in reverse for the first time. Most of the practical stuff here has been sorted, registering our stress index at zero. Chrissy seems amazed at how easy it has been for us, all due to her intervention, of course. We thought we’d already paid our dues in cash and kind, but it seems our gratitude is expected to be everlasting.

We’ve both lost weight despite our best efforts to nurture a cheap drink problem. Mind you, substituting convenience foods saturated with salt and sugar and stuffed with E numbers with freshly prepared meals just might have something to do with it. However, we absolutely dread the thought of early onset emigrey arms so are developing an addiction to chocolate to compensate.