This has been a good week, for reasons that I'd never even thought about when I started this whole writing lark. It's also been a bad week for entirely predictable reasons…

Let's get the bad done first. My sciatica is still bad, thanks for asking, and now I've got some kind of weird chest infection thing that's making me wheeze like my lungs are full of dust and slime. I can't cough because it hurts my back, and when I walk I tend to hunch over slightly and shuffle. All in all, I look like an ...