A familiar pleasure can change its place in your life without losing its value.

Things you love can move from the centre of your life to the edge of it and still be worth having. The music that was everything at twenty, the place you went every weekend: doing it four times a year instead of weekly is often read as losing interest, when it is really a change of position. Value and frequency are separate measures. Something can matter enormously and take up an hour a month.

If a pleasure has moved to the margins, keep it there rather than letting it lapse from guilt. One afternoon a season is enough to keep it in your life without asking it to be central.