A fair few years back (think E17 in the charts) I was a school leaver, collecting comments and good luck messages for posterity in a science notebook I had 'liberated' from the Physics cupboard.
One teacher, who was probably the age I am now, wrote "Keep that sense of humour - you'll need it when you go out in the real world". The word real was underlined not once, but twice.
And you know what, as I survey what has been all told another pretty shoddy week for me, my close buddies, and a lot of the rest of the world, I know exactly what they meant. The real world (underlined or not) doesn't take any prisoners. (It probably just beats them up instead)
So as I sign off, I am looking once more for my sense of humour, and am hopeful its at the foot of this tea mug I'm nursing.
May you kind reader always have your humour near you.
