Rather than thinking of today as Budget Day, we should perhaps remember that it’s National Cake Day - Sarah Todd

Obviously, as a long in the tooth journalist, keeping up with daily happenings is part of the job. But the temporary bedtime companion is a farmer’s wife.

Somebody who went down to London a year ago to demonstrate at the very first rally against the Government’s proposed inheritance tax on family farms and who has seen so much change since.

One example is the once upmarket hotel a stone’s throw from where her horses graze - far more salubrious than our race's accommodation - used to house asylum seekers and the knock-on changes this has brought to the area, both for residents and businesses.

But enough. Today the day has come when our country’s Chancellor Rachel Reeves - she who has proved wearing a trouser suit doesn’t magically make somebody good at their job - will be photographed outside of Number 11 Downing Street with the traditional red box containing the Budget speech.

By this evening, all the speculation will be replaced with rolling in-depth analysis of all the measures she announces.

Here’s hoping Ms Reeves has the courtesy to make some nod of acknowledgement towards all those, from so many walks of life, navigating the stark reality of being a British citizen in 2025.

A life where working hard and saving seems to be punished on the altar of bonkers net zero and benefits spending.

While today’s Budget will, of course, be followed, this correspondent is determined to get outside into the fresh air and take a break from feeling angry. Thinking aloud, it’s something that has been felt the whole time this current Government has been in power.

Thankfully, there are many people who live with a ‘glass is half-full’ mentality to take inspiration from.

With the latest leg getting underway next week, the amazing Kevin Sinfield has been giving interviews about his challenge - started in 2020 that has raised over £10m so far - to annually run seven marathons in seven days to support his late former teammate the late Rob Burrow and his family as well as the wider Motor Neurone Disease (MND) community.

As an aside, seeing Prince William warmly embrace Burrow’s widow at last week’s opening of the MND care centre in Leeds last week couldn’t have failed to warm even the coldest of hearts.

Rather than thinking of today as Budget Day, we should perhaps remember that it’s National Cake Day. While nothing would give greater pleasure than throwing an off-date cream cake - that would be cause for arrest in today’s world - maybe it’s a better idea to turn the television off and make one. Or go out to some poor café with skyrocketing rates and wages bills and devour a great big slice there.

Backtracking to the very real risk of getting arrested for saying something Sir Keir Starmer and his cronies don’t agree with, it was interesting to note - at a time when bobbies on the beat are as rare as hen’s teeth - that seven were recently sent to deal with a cat trapped in a supermarket.

The phenomenal response was made at a branch of Aldi in Nottinghamshire, after a pet cat sneaked inside and triggered the burglar alarm.

While it was all good japes among the boys and girls in blue about catching a “cat burglar red-handed,” some local residents were not amused, with one saying she had lived in the area for 20 years and had never seen a single police officer on patrol.

Oh no, this column is in danger of spiralling back into doom and gloom.

Now, please don’t follow this advice at home, but this red-headed reporter has decided to take inspiration from 1960s pools winner Viv Nicholson and “spend, spend, spend”.

In the last week she’s taken delivery of a pedigree ram, ordered a much lusted after new kettle (need to get out more) and is already looking at upgrading from the budget (a word used deliberately) hotel stayed in above when it comes to next year’s races.

The reasoning? If it’s been spent, Her In The Trouser Suit won’t be able to get her hands on it and that, dear readers, means a lot.