Suzanne Harrington: Start your own book of delights - it will make January better, I promise

"What if actually you’d like to rekindle the joy of faraway sunshine, as Storm Schartzmugel lashes down on your head? How do you do that?"
Suzanne Harrington: Start your own book of delights - it will make January better, I promise

Suzanne Harrington. Pic: Andrew Hasson

Returning home to extreme January after a sunny trip away – a goodbye trip with my kids, who have moved not just out of our house, but to distant continents – feels, I have to say, somewhat bleak.

It’s not empty nest syndrome, something which has long been a fantasy of mine, but the horror of returning to so-called ‘real’ life; even as a fan of Jan – and I am – there’s something a bit wretched about arriving back to an A-Z of battering storms. 

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