Dogs, daily delights and ditching Twitter: could a ‘fun-tervention’ improve my life – in just one month?

The author of a new book says having more fun builds resilience and will help get us through the next stage of the pandemic. But can she get me out of my funk?

It speaks to the scale of the challenge that, in the month that I set out to have more fun, my Christmas and new year plans are derailed by Covid; I am relieved of half my savings by a phone scammer; and a man I'm meeting for a first date suggests that maybe I am depressed.

I get my money back, and my date is a supply chain consultant, not a doctor - but fun certainly seems like a faraway prospect.