Caroline O'Donoghue: Five sources of utter delight I experienced today

Insist on delight. Grab it where you can. Seize this little wedge of time and refuse to let some old Victorian feel sorry for you.

Caroline O'Donoghue.

Last night I started reading a book that had been on my shelf for a year, but I hadn’t felt the urge to actually read it until now. 

Books are like that sometimes. You buy them and they sit in your house like a bag of potatoes, sprouting roots and taking on strange greenish hues, until finally it’s time to read them. In this case, it was the perfect time for the perfect book.