Make 2020 the decade of kindness by opening both your eyes and your heart

I found a few nuggets of ‘good sense’ in the book Swearing Is Go*d F*r You by Emma Byrne. It is my most successful way to manage stress, frustration and stupidity of which we have a surfeit. Turn on the TV and enter the pit of political and celebrity insanity. So, thank you to those producers who cheered us up with the genius Fleabag, Killing Eve and Gentleman Jack – please do more to keep us all sane.

The last few years have been painful but, at the same time, brought kindness into sharp relief. Practical examples which cheered me up included LEYF nursery managers; Gemma at Marks Gate and Caroline at Leys responding to their working parents’ poverty with a food bank and food swop scheme (not just tins of chick peas which challenges many of our culinary skills especially if you haven’t got a blender) but by collecting food that was both healthy and easy to serve to hungry children.