No matter what you do in life, there’s always someone telling you how you should be doing it. And I’m not talking about hectoring SNP ministers here.

I read one of those smug, preaching, self-help articles the other day, presumably written by someone who exists on a purifying diet of seeds, steam and spoonfuls of goading piety, and it was all about rest.

According to this regeneration guru, if sleep is the only rest you’re getting at the weekend, then you may as well just curl yourself up into the foetal position and give up.

Apparently, a half decent kip of a night is simply not enough to survive and thrive in this bamboozling world of ours.

As well as physical rest, you must also shoehorn in periods of mental rest, emotional rest, spiritual rest, social rest, sensory rest and creative rest.

“Why don’t you just give it a bloody rest and get on with your column,” snarled the sports editor as I hastily tried to untangle myself from my half-cocked meditative lotus position. What a sight.

Anyway, we could probably all do with a bit of a lie down after a pulsating, compelling three days of Solheim Cup cut-and-thrust. Once again, the meeting between the USA and Europe delivered on all fronts.

Well, apart from delivering fans from their cars to the course. The great........

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