I spent most of the past week working flat on my back, laptop perched on my chest. With barely half the keyboard in clear view, the typos flowed. As did the loud expletives, which caused pain to sear through my lower back … and more expletives.

My offspring chortled unsympathetically. I had overestimated my frame’s resolve in lugging a case of 12 fine wines roughly 450m from the village liquor emporium to the front door. It seems all these years of tedious “planking” have done nothing to reinforce my core...

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