Am I safe to risk poking my attention into some semi-public agora (the nearest Co-op, my Facebook newsfeed, Google’s targeted ads, whatever) without being cajoled, invited, ordered to contemplate my own and other people’s relationship status and invest time, effort, money and worry in it?

Oh look, most of the shops have skipped straight over Shrove Tuesday (that’s Pancake Day to you heathens) and gone in for the Easter chocolate kill.

Sorry, I can’t think about Easter yet, I have half a dozen or so gigs booked in between now and then. And one on Easter Saturday in Liverpool which I’m a little bit peeved about because it’ll make such a distraction in the middle of Holy Week.