So how many insane people do you know?
I've come across literally hundreds in many guises and in many different walks of life.

Head in the sand, maybe.

Stuck in their ways, obviously.

Frightened of change, clearly.

Stupid, not necessarily!

Fortunately not many – and none recently – have been people I have come across in my almost three decades at work.

One of the greatest things about the job I do is that it offers the chance of doing something different just about every day.

Some of the tasks are remarkably similar, some are even mundane, but they are very rarely the same as the one you did the day, week, month or even year before.

As an industry we have had to embrace change, keeping up with technology being one of the things that means we can stay in business – a fact highlighted by the percentage of people who actually read this column via our award-winning website.

Someone else once wrote, beautifully, and sang, perhaps not quite as well, about how the times "they are a-changing".

So why can people not get it?

Are their really hordes of people out there stuck in a rut along the lines of: It's Monday so it must be shepherd's pie for tea?

I joke with a colleague it must by Thursday as he has a yellow tie on.

But even he is not really that predictable!

I regularly come across people who adopt an "it's not broken, so don't fix it mentality".

I usually ask that what time the four-year-old boy is coming round to sweep their chimney!

Someone, and clearly someone much cleverer than I will ever be, once said only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

So how many insane people do you know?

For the sake of clarity, the three "someones" in question are: An inscription above a door at a conference centre in Blackpool; Bob Dylan and Max Beerbohm. Name-dropping never really has been my thing!