{"id":95287,"date":"2020-04-09T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/?p=95287"},"modified":"2020-04-09T11:47:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T10:47:28","slug":"hold-onto-your-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stories.qvcuk.com\/presenters\/claire-sutton\/hold-onto-your-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold onto your hats…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh my word, I felt I must write and catch up with you all with the most important of questions…<\/p>\n

How are you all doing?<\/p>\n

That is said from my heart. I know we all live very different lives, some of you will be with your families juggling things, worrying about things and hopefully cuddling your loved ones, as I am.<\/p>\n

Yet, for some of you it will be with the quiet stillness of your own company and mind. I hope you can connect somehow with someone, family or otherwise. I hope perhaps QVC can offer you some light-heartedness and familiarity<\/p>\n

Please do be in touch with me here and on my Instagram<\/a> and Twitter<\/a> accounts. I feel this time, like no other, is our chance to support each other.<\/p>\n

Throughout my many years of writing to you with all the chatter of my life, my family and QVC, I have felt supported and held by you. So, please let me do the same for you if you need it.<\/p>\n

I guess that you, like me, are adjusting and accommodating and finding some acceptance of this strange, uncertain and frightening time that we are all experiencing \u00a0– and yes, \u00a0we ARE truly in it together, aren\u2019t we? Not one person can be exempt from this.<\/p>\n

I pray daily we will survive and stay well. I try daily to give my thanks and be grateful for all I have and that I am lucky to still to have.<\/p>\n

Our compassionate nature is being tested. WE are being tested and I, for one, always want to see the good, the kind and the beauty within people. And oh my goodness, it\u2019s flooding and shining from so many people, wouldn\u2019t you agree?<\/p>\n

There will be some positivity that we will take from this time of solitude, and it offers us a chance to reflect and reassess. If you find things get on top of you, pause and step away. I certainly find I am happier if I\u2019m not too engulfed in the constancy of news and negativity, to stop comparing what I am and am not doing and to be kind to myself…<\/p>\n

Luckily for me, I got the most coveted of birthday gifts last week and was treated to a smoked salmon breakfast. Oh, how loved I am.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

As I type this, I\u2019m sitting on the day bed in my bikini top. I still haven\u2019t gone for the walk I\u2019ve been trying all day to do with Gus, and I\u2019m in and amongst the rubble as Dan is replacing our deck area.<\/p>\n

There is washing draped on airers and it\u2019s been out there for two days now – so clearly dry! Yet, it\u2019s still out crisping up in the sunshine.<\/p>\n

I’m eating chopped apples, peppers and a yummy bit of salty Roquefort on crackers. Oh, how I\u2019m appreciating the sun and warmth today. A full day off and in all senses of the word, we say it often, but\u2026 it\u2019s the little things.<\/p>\n

Without a doubt, we are seeing many of those.<\/p>\n

So far today, my little things are:<\/p>\n