Meet Emma Sweeting

Emma’s Philosophy

Forget doom-scrolling on your phone. It's guaranteed to give you a humpy back, a triple chin and a menty B.

Get hold of a pen/pencil and notebook with plain pages and keep them in your bag or car door from now on.

• Stuck on a slow train?

• Queuing at check-out?

• Been on-hold for half an hour?

Embrace the pause! Whip out your notebook and get drawing!

• Doodle that tubby bloke in your train carriage, scoffing a scotch egg.

• Capture that still life composition on the conveyer belt at Aldi.

• Sketch that scene from your window while the hold music plays on...and on.

You'll soon be drawing like mad:

• in the car wash

• at the dentist's

• on the touchline

• from the back of the Assembly Hall while your kid waits an eternity to recite his one measly line in the school play

Time will pass in a flash - and you'll stay sanguine and calm like never before.