"I think it is about time many others said "Didn't I do well!" instead of pretending to be hard done by "

'Doing well' in life doesn't have to mean earning a lot of money. My grandfather left school at 12 but 'did well' in becoming one of the best-read and most knowledgeable people I have ever met. He worked his whole life as a farm labourer and railway clerk and never lived in a house with a bathroom or inside toilet until he moved into an alms house in his late 80s. But he 'did well' by serving in two world wars and then being a magistrate, chairman of the council, churchwarden, sitting on innumerable committees and spending every spare hour working for the community, largely unpaid. When my grandmother said to him that if he'd been paid for everything he did, they'd be rich, his answer was, "That's not why I do it".

But he did it bloody well! I admire him more than any self-made millionaire.