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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Elle Hunt

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

The keys to enjoyment?
The keys to enjoyment? Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

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.

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