Before you set off on a walk, however serpentine you imagine it becoming, a mind’s-eye thread winds off before you into the distance. You see hazy, fragmented images of the route and the end point. That end point might be back home, or back at the office: a circular walk. It might be a tea […]

One recent research project found that 81% of us feel dread on a Sunday evening about the coming week. It’s easy to take this idea of ‘Sunday dread’ at face value: you’ve either got it or you haven’t, in the same way the sky is either cloudy or it isn’t. The absence of dread means […]