A man lies on a bed in a dimly lit, worn room, smoking. Blue smoke swirls above him as light streams through a window.

Victorian quarter — and in no time, he’s sitting up in bed, enjoying the first joint of the day. He types ‘dream of being dragged by the feet’ into the retrieved phone and inhales the burning weed. When the fire in his lungs becomes unbearable, he exhales, and watches the room fill with blue smoke that swirls then hangs in the air above his head. It stands for self-punishment and guilt, according to the top result. The next says he's taking on too much. Another warns it's a portent for some life changing occurrence. Bullshit, says Scouller and continues scrolling. The result at the bottom of the page reads, 'being pulled generally means you are being influenced by someone or something' and he wonders who or what that could be. Courtney — the ex — who he assumes is in the living room, barely crosses his mind these days. Separated but living together, the internet calls it, citing mutual self-interest as the prime motivator, and when he read that, Scouller concurred. In exchange for a continued supply of weed from the brother-in-law, and dihydrocodeine – the good milk - from the mother-in-law, who lives with chronic pain in Easterhouse, Natalie continues to live rent-free, with full run of the living-room, away from her chaotic and otherwise avoidable family. His mother? He'll see her tomorrow morning in his childhood home, same as every other Sunday. She'll cook a big fry-up and sit opposite him on the couch, talking the whole time about barely-remembered relatives, See more