I woke up this morning with a mission: Clean my desk. I tend toward messiness in my office, it’s a disorder that is the despair of my husband – and me, after awhile. But it’s reached saturation point, and I sat down at my computer this morning and the scales fell from my eyes: this is too dreadful even for me. So my one job today, apart from a visit to my rheumatologist, is to create some open space on my desk. Right now I can just about put a cup of tea on the front edge of it and that’s all.