Rosemary Shrager: ‘Dark days bring you down, especially when you’re older’
It was a dark, chilly, rainy day and – full of cold – Rosemary Shrager didn’t want to get up.
But, like most of us, the 72-year-old celebrity chef and author couldn’t lounge in bed all day – she had appointments to get to. And, perhaps just as importantly, she had soup to make, and that was going to help her feel better.
“Dark days, they do bring you down, especially when you’re older,” Shrager says. “I think people don’t realise the impact dark days have on elderly people.”
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