How to be happy

I sometimes get asked how I manage to be such a happy and positive person. I can tell you I wasn’t always this way. There was a time, when I felt as though I was under a dark storm cloud, as thick and black as my mood. It was a long process to move myself

Life in lockdown (prose)

“Before”, I woke up to the 5am sound of planes descending into Heathrow. “Now”, I wake up, much later, to the sound of birds singing in the trees outside my sash windows. Sometimes, I stay in bed an extra few minutes just to enjoy their comforting birdsong. “Before”, I would pull the duvet over my