what’s something unexpected that brings you joy?

ALICE ZASLAVSKY

COOK, WRITER + PRESENTER

n my household, where my husband Nick hasn’t cut his mane since well before lockdown (picture a lion, but man-sized), I’m between lengths, and The Nut, our 15-month-old, is in a fossicking phase (picture a squirrel, but toddler-sized), a stray hair elastic is like an Easter egg. When I chance upon one – in a pocket, a book, a nook, a cranny – the unbridled joy I feel