Rant No. 1 I do not understand birthdays at work. If it's your birthday, at many offices you have to go out and buy some cakes or donuts or cookies, or a selection of all three. Everyone very graciously wishes you happy birthday and thanks you for the sweet treats. It's all nice and pleasant. But my birthday means nothing to me, I'd rather the day just went by like …

All I wanted was a box of Old El Paso Nacho's and Tesco's Finest white choc cookies. Do you think I could find any? I had to go to three different Tesco's and an Asda Walmart, which took me over an hour. Dammit!