Eat your lunch outside

Today, take your lunch outside and eat it slowly. Not at your desk, not in the car with the radio on, not standing at the counter scrolling through the news. Outside, on a bench or a wall or a step, for at least fifteen minutes.

It sounds too small to matter, and that is precisely why it works. When everything feels uncertain, you need a few things that are certain and pleasant and entirely yours. A sandwich in the fresh air is a very good place to start. If it rains, and in Manchester it will, take an umbrella and eat it anyway.