Once again, despite my love of British history, the only thing that I seem to remember from my school days about King Alfred is that he was holed up somewhere in some sort of boggy terrain following a lengthy battle and, due to exhaustion had fallen asleep by a fire and managed to burn some cakes!

I really wish, just for once, Adam and I managed to fit into a "neutral" zone! It seems we're constantly living in a series of heady heights or down in the doldrums and this last week has been no exception.

Before I became a freelance writer/digital typist, I worked as a legal secretary in my local city of Norwich and I often found myself glued to my chair for most of the day apart from 9.00 to 9.15 in the morning when I did my filing, about half an hour when I had lunch and about five minutes max making coffee or tea but new research shows that we can be glued to our workstations and computers but remain fit!