Time & Perspective Quote by Jill Dando

Domestic detail becomes a subtle editorial decision here. Jill Dando’s line is ostensibly about logistics - a wedding in autumn, a perfectly reasonable reason to be in England more often. But the phrasing does something sneakier: it frames a major life commitment as an "additional incentive", a bonus item on an already full schedule, not the schedule itself. That’s the voice of a working journalist managing competing obligations, smoothing the personal into the professional so it doesn’t look like sentiment is driving the story.

"Certainly" functions like a small anchor of authority, the word you use when you anticipate questions. It’s preemptive reassurance: yes, there are practical reasons; no, you don’t need to speculate. Then there’s "rather more time", a characteristically British understatement that lets her acknowledge change without dramatizing it. No gush, no grand pivot, just a calibrated increase. Even marriage arrives as a nudge, not a thunderclap.

The context matters because Dando’s public identity was built on being familiar but composed - the kind of broadcaster whose credibility relies on not making herself the headline. In that light, this sentence reads like reputation management as much as life update: she signals stability, rootedness, a future in England, while keeping the intimacy at arm’s length. The subtext is control. She’s drawing a boundary around what the audience gets: enough personal narrative to make her legible, not enough to make her consumable.