It’s always about this time of year that I start to yearn for long summer days. Here in Aberdeen we have about 7.5 hours of daylight mid January – and that doesn’t take account of the dark cloudy days. If you were to offer me tickets a few days somewhere warm in the southern hemisphere, I’d take your arm off. So, what do I do to counter the effects of SAD?

A few years ago, I made a wee film with a friend that, to my surprise, Aberdeen Art Gallery selected to go on display. While I should have been pleased, I hated the whole thing. I felt like a fraud. I was taking up space that a ‘proper artist’ could have filled. What made it worse was that my face was on show for half of the damned run time. On the opening night, I didn’t even look in its direction.