Getting up for the gym this morning was a very unpleasant experience. There was ice on my car for the first time this year. I drove across the flood plain dying for the engine to heat up enough to give me some warm air, but it took almost all the way into town to really get going. Fortunately, when I’d finished and got to the station, the train came within a minute of me arriving, and we raced along to London in the warm.

I had a very embarassing experience when it came to pay in Vital Ingredient at lunchtime and discovered I had precisely

1. Back to work
   It was unbelievably difficult getting out of bed this morning, and when I eventually managed it and looked out of the window it was dark...
   
   
2. Work
   A brief reminder of what it is like to work today. It's shocking how quickly you slip into the 'normality' of time off work. This...
   
   
3. Bursting the bag
   More pain on waking. I think the second scraping session really finished me off. I could barely walk and I certainly couldn't bend down to...