yes, by popular request (my postman kev asked this morning), it's the return of the best selling, unique HOW TO ... guide.
this edition is sponsored by BLACKPOOL PROMENADE, a mile long corridor of laughter (especially with ten pints and a bag of chips inside you).
so - just how do you stay cheerful when life seems determined to give you frown lines (and yes, that means you gordon brown!)

  1. stand out in the rain and laugh as people's umbrellas blow inside out and they get splashed by bus drivers with the devil inside them
  2. if you are on a beach holiday, collect a bucket of crabs, find the most miserable looking family group, and simply drop the contents into their beach bag
  3. at the motorway services, wait till someone has got a very full cup of coffee and they're walking very carefully so as not to spill any - then shout FIRE right in their earhole
  4. laugh all the time - wherever you are...in a business meeting, in church, at a wedding reception (no, that's going too far) - just keep chuckling and laugh even more as everyone stares
  5. take your clothes off and go to the supermarket as usual (but don't forget your recycled carrier bag)
  6. go and sit in a dentist waiting room and scream a lot, as if you are in pain, and warn people to go somewhere else (you could wrap a large bandage round your jaw, just for a bit of extra amusement)
  7. go out one night and put a for sale sign outside every house in the street
  8. buy a chinese meal and run off without eating it

i'm here to help.  i'm sure that before long you'll be as happy as a village idiot who has just found out the village pond is full of cheap cider.
just follow my advice, as usual, and do let me know how you get on.