{"product_id":"here-comes-the-fun-a-year-of-making-merry","title":"Here Comes the Fun : A Year of Making Merry","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Aitken, Ben \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 25\/05\/2023,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781837730056,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH?Ben Aitken wasn't. Increasingly flat and decreasingly zen, he knew that something had to change. So he joined a lawn bowls club. About a week later, he continued his assault on the doldrums by taking a cheerleading class. Then - with an almost entirely reformed selfhood winking appealingly on the horizon- he went cold-water swimming and was back to square one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the inevitable setbacks and missteps, it was becoming clear to Aitken that the very pursuit of fun was a great route to feeling less naff. And so he made a vow to go after the f-stuff with as much gusto as he could muster. (Starting with the crossword.) Over the next year, he filled his calendar with a plethora of potentially pleasurable pursuits. He did things he'd never done before but reckoned could be fun (a pilgrimage in Spain, afternoon bingo); things whose fun-factor was less obvious and more down-to-earth (volunteering in a charity shop, sitting on a bench); and things he wasn't at all sure about but were fun according to other people (improv, wakeboarding, learning Welsh).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the results were mixed, the author's year of making merry left him feeling undoubtedly ... better. Which invites the question: if fun is such a reliable mood-swinger, shouldn't we be having more of it?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43104880787500,"sku":"9781837730056","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781837730056.jpg?v=1713018137","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/here-comes-the-fun-a-year-of-making-merry","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}