It’s much easier to fix someone else’s problems rather than my own

It may surprise you to know that these columns sometimes are a bit of a struggle to write. I know! You’d be thinking - surely there can’t be much skill required in horsing out 600 words off the top of one’s head on a topic you’ve no formal qualifications to write about?

Well believe it or not, there are occasions when even The Inconsequential Fluff Muse deserts a man and it becomes a struggle to transfer words from the brain to the keyboard.

I’ll tell when they’re not a struggle though: When I’m giving advice. I LOVE giving advice – it’s one of my secret foibles after all you can’t spell advice without vice.