Right, so where were we when I took a break from this column-writing lark three months ago?
Let me see. Boris Johnson was PM, The Queen was on the throne, Liz Truss was just a joke not the punchline to every joke, you could still afford your mortgage and Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield were popular.
As I type this, under King Charles III and Prime Minister Sunak, Googling the words “how to downsize to a garret”, August seems a lifetime ago.