Dear fellow weary compatriots, I’ve got nothing upbeat to tell you, so if you’re looking for weekend merriment please move along, there’s nothing to see here. It’s been a hell of a few weeks. There were cockroaches crawling around in my fridge until yesterday, when the fridge was replaced, but the inside of the new fridge is about as cool as a gun in a classroom. The plumber was supposed to come three months ago to fix a big leak but he didn’t, so I got cross and called another plumber, but have been waiting for him for a month.