Columnist and deputy print editor for Sunderland Echo, Shields Gazette and Hartlepool Mail.
Perhaps the final image the world ever sees of me will be my outstretched frost-dusted hand frozen just inches from the thermostat.
It is a well documented fact that it takes fewer muscles to smile than it does to frown. Which means, if you want a full face workout, be a miserable sod.
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