Happy mundanity

Here's one I wrote earlier

Yesterday, in her gorgeous piece on her 58 rules for life in The Times, my friend and yours Dolly Alderton quoted something I wrote back in 2019.

It’s always nice to see those words pop up again, as they do from time to time, usually thanks to Dolly’s amplification. When it was first published it went as close as I’m probably ever going to get to viral, this nursery-lurgy-of-the-week notwithstanding. An extract of it has even been read at a wedding. A wedding! ‘Love is mundane’ is my ‘love is a temporary madness’. I once met someone who has it printed out and stuck to their fridge, and it was all they could do to stop me following them home to take a photo as evidence, to print out and stick to my own.

All of which is absurdly lovely, but there is one snag: the article in question no longer exists.

It was written for Guardian Labs, the Guardian’s branded content arm, which means it actually was a temporary madness, published as part of a wider ad campaign and then taken down again a c…