A friend has been prompted to look back over some of my old blogs, checking for any advice she can pass on to another friend, who has had a recent Parkinson’s diagnosis. “I notice,” she writes, “that you don’t do it anymore.” (Meaning, I’m assuming, writing the blog, rather than having Parkinson’s. If only…)

Do I not? It can’t be that long ago since…

Ah. December 2022. Well, who knew? Apart from my friend, of course, the canny lass.

It’s possible that nothing has happened in the last two and a half years to merit a blog. Or perhaps I’m just ‘scruciating idle. Or both, in fact – the two – to quote my niece Ezza (a woman of infinite resource and sagacity) – are not mutually exclusive.

Anyway, this is where we are. The question now is where should we be and – more to the point – how the flip are we going to get there?