In February, at the age of 65 – in the middle of a five-month hospital and rehabilitation sojourn which followed the emergency spinal that has left me in a wheelchair, for life – I wrote here very much in feisty-old-lady mode in defence of the triple-lock pension .

Now I’m an actual pensioner – a catheterised one, to boot – I’m more determined to have it than ever.

According to my critics, it’s a pretty penny I’m contemplating (Fagin-like, rubbing my greedy little fingerless-gloved grasping hands together) as the full state pension is set to increase by a whopping £11 a week from next spring, making me even more like to go off on a Caribbean cruise.

The rise will take the state pension to £12,534.60 a year. I deserve every last pence piece of it. I’ve worked from the age of 17 and

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