MY FATHER WAS a wit, sage and raconteur. At least by his own reckoning. He never held back when offering advice to his young, impressionable son – although I was 38 at the time.
“Smile,” he always used to say, “things could get worse.” I listened. I heeded; and he was right. I smiled, and they did.
The reason I mention this is because it reminds me of what many of us were going through as 2020 became 2021. The former was a quite horrible 12 months, as the pandemic raged around the world, there were mass protests about systemic racism, and, perhaps the greatest tragedy, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle told The Queen
