FEELING stressed? I'm not surprised, there's a lot of it about.

I'm stressed just thinking about the subject.

There's some stresses we can deal with and some we just have to accept.

This week we had 'Blue Monday", not apparently the 80s hit by New Order.

And the long-awaited Brexit announcement and the inauguration of Donald Trump.

It's not as if the people had a say on those matters. (Oh! wait a minute...)

Anyway, apparently we've all got to relax more and chill (slightly easier in this inclement weather).

But no-one's really telling us how to do that in our 24/7 culture.

Let's see how calm you are if I take you through a 'typical' day, many of you may experience.

You get up at 7.30am. You feel relaxed, ready for the day, but then realise you should have been up at 6.30am. Damn that snooze button.

The bathroom's occupied and when you do eventually get in you have to fight through a wall of wet towels and trail of stripey toothpaste.

There's no hot water and there's been a power cut and you can't use your razor. No electricity means no TV, no radio and of course more importantly, no breakfast.

As you get dressed in the dark you discover there's a horrible stain on the shirt you've put on and your socks have a hole in them. But there's no time to change them.

You head for the car, but find that the 'ice fairy' has sprinkled her 'magic dust' all over your windows. The de-icer runs out halfway through.

The heater then spends 30 minutes chucking out cold air and you have to stick your head out of the window to see (you look just like your pet dog!).

Following 15 sets of roadworks and traffic lights that seem permanently on red, it's time to play 'hunt the parking space'.

You eventually squeeze your car into a bay the size of a toddler's trike and wonder why you can't open the doors.

After climbing through the sun roof, you rush to the office in anticipation of the rigours ahead.

You find the vending machine's on the blink and the nearest coffee outlet is charging £8 for a cup of luck-warm 'mud'. Pastries will set you back another tenner.

The computer makes a groaning sound as you turn it on to tell you there's been a system error and you have to sit twiddling your thumbs for two hours, while someone tries to fix it.

Lunch is a lettuce leaf and celery stick as you're permanently on a diet. Followed by an afternoon cream cake - 'must have a treat' and naturally, a diet fizzy drink of some sort.

Then following work, it's off to do battle in the evening rush-hour traffic where a number of motorists think it's a dodgems track.

Your partner then rings you - on the hands-free, of course - and says can you pick up some 'emergency supplies' from the 24-hour supermarket.

The supermarket your partner refers to either shut in 2004 or has closed due to another power cut.

So you spend 30 minutes driving around for another store. It takes you twice as long to get the things you need and the squeaky trolley won't steer properly.

The checkout queues are enormous, so you aim for the self-service area.

Every item you put down is 'an unexpected item in the baggage area' and you suddenly realise you need 10 plastic bags as you didn't bring any with you.

So home and it's just time for a quick snack, a fatuous TV programme and then catch up on your latest emails.

There's an urgent one from your online bank asking you to ring them. But they stopped taking calls at 8pm and it's now 9pm.

You can't go to sleep until 2am wondering what it's all about.

You then get up at 6am, totally stressed out for the day ahead and so it continues.

But the good news for me is that fills my column and I can turn my attention to something else.

Like this 2,000 word feature I should have done and the deadline's in five minutes. HELP!!!!