THIS year has been shit enough without attempting to sort out all the huge, festering problems in your life. So keep sweeping these things under the carpet until 2020 is over.
Repairing your relationship with your mum
If current restrictions stay in place you can’t go near her until April anyway, so you may as well cut contact entirely. Finally you get to have your own Christmas without your mum’s passive-aggressive remarks about how much Jesus achieved before he was 33.
Sorting out your finances
It is perfectly acceptable to max out your Barclaycard on Deliveroo, because that way you’re supporting key workers. Besides, the whole world is sliding into a terrifying pit of debt, so it’s important to show some solidarity.
Doing the garden
For several years the garden has been a tangle of nettles, litter and fox poo. You’ve had weeks to sort it out due to furlough but the time seemed better spent watching Loose Women and eating Magnums. But it’s basically winter now, so it’s too late.
Telling your boss where to stick it
One major downside of Covid is that you have to stay at your cesspit of a job and be extra grateful for it. But there is mercy in a longer lockdown: it gives you months to practise saying “F**k you and your monthly stationery stocktake, Trudy”.
Looking in the mirror
Coping with Covid and lockdown has left you fat and knackered. Remove all mirrors from your home and tell people you’re going through a transformative body-image process. Which is a nice way of saying you’ve really let yourself go.
