My trick to enjoying life is to always have a formula, writes Kate Halfpenny.
Unless it’s buying shoes or a house – I always go with my gut for important things – my trick to enjoying life is to always have a formula.All that improvising and whipping up prawns and chocolate and smoked butter into a heart on a plate isn’t my speed. Too anxiety-inducing. Give me a recipe, let me make a plan, I’m solid.The Man Who Died Twicepeople are either weather forecasters or the actual weather.
Being the weather sounds more glamorous but I’m a forecaster. Laying the groundwork means when it’s go-time I can find the amount of insouciance that makes anything look ad hoc. I would never not have vodka, a wheel of brie and freezer bolognaise sauce at home, for example. Anyone drops in – very weather behaviour – I can hostess it up in ten seconds.My A-type perfectionism came to a head when the kids were small.
The formula made Christmas so fun and easy that I tweaked it into one for everyday use. Why nail just one day a year? By working out what I was overthinking, what I valued, what I could do without, I came up with my formula for a terrific life.
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