A reliably cheery way to wind up a trying week is with Yoko Ono. At her Imagine Peace website of a Friday, the artist and widow of a well-known Liverpudlian picks a handful of questions from Twitter and Facebook and settles in. There’s a lot of guff about happiness and health and all that, but an entertaining morsel or two always sneak through.

My favourites from the last couple of batches:

Question: “Do you think there are different types of love? and one is more special/important than the other? for instance your love for john, and sean in comparison to a friend’s love or love for john as a fan? btw, i LOVE that you do this for us! thank you.”

Yoko: “Love does not choose. It’s like water. It goes to wherever it’s needed.”

Question: “Hi Yoko, I’m sure you’ve had this question before, but have you ever seen a UFO?”

Yoko: “I think I have. And not even once but many times. They are certainly coming to our planet more and more.”

Question: “Did John cook at home, and if so what did he make that was good?”

Yoko: “He stopped making anything and made everybody happy.”

Question: “What was the first movie you ever made, and what was it about?”

Yoko: “I don’t remember. This is a question you should ask some archivist of films of the world.”

Yoko Ono also produces some splendid tweets. Some of my favourites, beginning with one from yesterday:

It was getting easier to just lie down and watch the sky. That’s when I fell in love with the sky, I think.

Each one of us are affecting the world not just on land, but in the water too! Let’s not create a tsunami with our anger and fear, shall we?

All of us can be omnipresent by communicating to the whole world at once through the internet.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

If the butterflies in your stomach die, send yellow flowers to your friend with a note of love.

Draw a line with your body. See how it effects you, See how it effects where you are drawing the line. See how it effects the whole world.

“If you knew nothing about Yoko Ono, and read her tweets for the first time, you’d probably think she was a fairy godmother – which makes up a bulk of the appeal,” said Time, in naming her among the top 140 Twitter feeds of 2012. Which is one way of putting it.

She’s very net-savvy, is Yoko – along with her website and Twitter, she’s on Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest. Cheers!