For my final column, my biggest lesson yet: there is no model, there is only trying

Our spaces are museums to ourselves. The pictures I hang reveal the versions of myself I want to express to the world

It’s taken me four years, but now I slide under that lane divider like a VIP hopping past a club’s red velvet rope

Could I learn to be my own manicurist? Or would the brain strain be too much?

I grew up with cricket in my family background and love the pleasing thud of leather on willow – now I just need the knowledge

‘You can do all the right things but it just doesn’t happen. That’s life,’ says the nice man at the garden centre

As someone who loves to wear a face mask, this is a great time to take my dentist’s advice and get my crooked smile fixed

When I attempted to tell a good friend how much I had in my account, I felt my skin go cold

When I’m hungover, I’m so busy finding everything hilarious that worries about chores go out the window

Some might say the cards are divine. I say they are a Rorschach test

There will always be a gap between how a message is sent and how it is received, and trying to change that with emojis is madness

People chuckle at my sense of wonder, but there are few delights as big as childlike discovery and it is a gift to experience it

As a child, I made the embarrassing discovery that buying other people’s clothes close to home has its drawbacks

Fun takes commitment – you have to work at it, even on a family break in the rain

This ‘new chapter’ seems to mostly involve arguing about what to buy. What’s wrong with trial and error?

Bring on the pointless parties and the ‘sausage chic’ dress. I will fulfil my duties with aplomb

Could it be that my boyfriend’s refusal to go to bed at a sensible time is a vital act of self-destruction that keeps him going?

It’s just too big and ever-changing. Besides, it’s in the mistakes that magic happens

I can’t get a pub bench, a lido swim or a lunchtime mani – but there’s something refreshing about being reminded of how similar we can be

Could it be that I, a committed extrovert who talks to strangers, had become an introvert during the pandemic?