HOW TO BE HAPPY

"Has anyone ever told you how to be happy?" was the question I put to my fourteen year-old granddaughter this morning.

"No," said Frances.

"Do something for someone else every day,' I said.

Doing something for someone else every day is the way to become a saint, is the way it was put to me a few years ago, but I thought that wouldn't go down so well with a teenager.

It comes to the same thing; it's saints who are truly happy.