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

[tree_and_leaf]

.... 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....