Just when we thought the summer silly season was over, the Mail on Sunday informs us that eight per cent of us dread going into work because we can’t stand our colleagues. Quite how this statistic is relevant to the sponsor of the survey - supplier of printer consumables CartridgeMonkey.com - is unclear.

With the change in the weather, no doubt the headlines will soon be filled with traffic chaos caused by leaves on the line or a five-minute smattering of sleet on the roads. Makes a change from the credit crunch, I suppose…

Jo Jamieson