Remember melancholy Ria, played by Wendy Craig, from the TV sitcom Butterflies in the late 1970s?
One day in my late 40s, I woke up and found I’d turned into her. Minus the ‘will she, won’t she’ affair with dashing businessman Leonard.
All of a sudden I felt overwhelmed by my life. Sometimes, I would be gripped by an inexplicable rage at the small regularity of things. The same biscuit tin staring at me from the same shelf every day;