The Joy of Small Things: Small is beautiful as a writer smells the roses
From board games to night-time bus journeys, Hannah Jane Parkinson’s new book encourages the reader to take pleasure in the minor things in life
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The Joy of Small Things
By Hannah Jane Parkinson
Guardian Faber Publishing, €14
In his brilliant podcast From the Oasthouse, Alan Partridge tells us that when doing corporate gigs, he often opens his wallet and looks at a faded Polaroid photograph.
Taken in 1989 at a Saxon Radio Summer Roadshow, it shows Partridge surrounded by staff and 20 children coming towards him with a bucket of gunge. He uses this image to remind himself ...