"How's your year been? I prefer to think of it...

.... not as an uphill, depressing struggle, but sheer bloody misery" Listening to the Minister's Old Year's Night sermon yesterday, other than being depressed by it, I had a nagging sense of familiarity.

Later that day, I watched a DVD of old Scotch and Wry (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/s/scotchandwry_1299003554.shtml), and discovered the lugubrious Rev IM Jolly doing a remarkably similar reflection for Hogmanay. Except, obviously, that was supposed to be parody....