Finder side-bar is 'greyed out'

As the title suggests, my finder side-bar is greyed out all of a sudden.
All I see is 'Devices', 'Shared', 'Places' and 'Search for'... all greyed out and unusable.
I have gone into preferences>sidebar> and all boxes are ticked...
As an aside: I have a time capsule and opened the time machine for the first time the other day... I noticed then that the desktop finder view which comes up also has a greyed out sidebar... could it be related?
Can anyone help get my side-bar back?

Embarassingly... yes it does!
I stupidly have been clicking on the words only. Must be the alcohol still lingering since the New Year.
Thanks Chris

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