Colm O'Regan: A dirty weekend with my wife, cleaning out the attic

For years I thought that having an attic that was up in a heap was just something that was a constant about life, like National Debt or moles.

“And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept...for there were no more worlds to conquer.” I know how Alexander The Great felt.

To be clear, I haven’t just led a host of thousands of bristling swordsmen and lumbering war elephants across Persia to conquer the Hindu Kush.