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Help! Lockdown stole my sense of humour

She’s usually in on the joke, but thanks to the fun vacuum that is 2020, Fleur Britten’s GSOH has been Awol since March. Nearly six months later, can she learn to lol again?

LUKASZ WIERZBOWSKI
The Sunday Times

My whole family is falling about laughing, but I’m not feeling the joke. I’ve just sold my rather lovely bag worth £50 on eBay for a miserable 99p, and to make matters worse — or better, to everyone else — the parcel is too big to qualify for the agreed postage costs, so I’ve actually had to pay to sell my bag. When my eight-year-old daughter collapses into giggles after affectionately prodding my new lockdown tummy, all it does is bring out my ever-ready cat’s-arse face. We know that losing your sense of smell is a symptom of Covid-19, but who knew losing your sense of humour would be too?

“If we humans are feeling uncomfortable, you can’t make us laugh,” says Professor Sophie Scott,