Cartoon by John Sadler

• A GP acquaintance of mine – from back in the day when they used to visit your home – revealed that on a visit to a patient one blistering July day he found the Christmas decorations still adorned the front room.

He judged this to be a sign that his patient had either lost touch with reality or was profoundly depressed. The Christmas lights in Camden Road, Camden Town, have been twinkling desperately month in month out for about three years now. What’s the diagnosis?

C MURRAY
NW1