5 things that can cheer you up when you are sad

1. Arriving at work to hear perhaps the finest words in the English language - 'someone has sent you flowers'.

2. Opening the great big box to find that the flowers are in fact a bottle of wine, box of chocolates and a pretty little plant.

3. Being taken out for lunch in Fifi and Ally - soup, sandwiches and sympathy.

4. Lime green trousers and black leather mittens in Cos.

5. Finding out Martha Wainwright has an album of Piaf songs you didn't know about.