Say oui to ennui: how to face, and even embrace, your boredom

Tedium’s payouts are so much more than the €50,000 awarded to French employee Frédéric Desnard for ‘boreout’

Blam! Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger to teach British pupils about money

Bank of England and Beano team up in primary school course on financial literacy

From going grey to hand washing: 12 lockdown habits we’re going to keep

Life in lockdown has been an exercise in patience, but for some, there have been rewards worth bringing into their ‘new normals’

‘This man knows he’s dying as surely as I do’: a doctor’s dispatches from the NHS frontline

As lockdown is relaxed, many in the NHS are left reeling. Palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke shares her experience working with coronavirus patients, and her fears of a second wave

An A to Z of old words to calm and inspire hope

Have a ‘kaffeeklatsch’ until you become ‘unsoulclogged’: archaic soothing terms to use in troubling times

A letter to my post-lockdown self: ‘Keep listening to the birds’

Author Bernardine Evaristo, broadcaster Hugh Pym, playwright James Graham and more pen letters to themselves, to be opened in May 2021

Sara Maitland: ‘Savour solitude – it is not the same as loneliness’

The author of How to Be Alone argues that concerns about the effects of lockdown may be misplaced

Inferno; What Have I Done? – fearless accounts of postpartum psychosis

Catherine Cho and Laura Dockrill are painfully honest about the horrors they experienced as new mothers in the grip of a terrible illness

The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith review – unwinding with nature

A life-affirming study of the pleasures of tending a plot or garden and soothing your mind

The Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith; The Natural Health Service by Isabel Hardman – review

A fascinating pair of books on the therapeutic potential of the natural world