Dear Diary, I’m calling this section ‘Lockdown Ramblings’ and will add to it until the day I can embrace somebody that doesn’t live in my household!

-         Having spent all those years playing ‘Teacher’ at home with teddies and animals of the stuffed variety, it is now clear to me I would NOT make a good teacher. Dexter will attest to this. Thank goodness I changed career choice and went into recruitment…………….

-         I am not quite the Michelin chef that I had assumed I would become over this period. My cooking repertoire is limited, and having watched approximately 237,500 hours of Masterchef and all its iterations, it appeared to me that cooking different meals should be easier. Going to stick to the 10 meals I know and rotate from now on. Luckily for Dexter we will not have to enter Turkey Twizzler phase ever.

-         I have not worn make up for almost 8 weeks apart from when on Zoom calls to candidates and clients and my skin is grateful for this although I’m not sure everyone else is. Although, my colleague Sophie told me that Zoom has a feature enhancement section which sounds amazing. Must use – stop scaring people with the au naturel look (on the face obvs)

-         When I am 80, I will be asking ‘what was Zoom?!’

-         Make time for exercise and stop using work/homeschooling and anything else as an excuse. You ripped your jeans yesterday bending over. It’s a sign. Look back on this and know you committed to regular exercise. Don’t care what you do but as the NIKE slogan goes, JUST DO IT!

-         I LOATHE the word ‘pivot’ now. It’s almost as overused as ‘unprecedented’. The only context where I want to hear the word pivot is when Ross Geller is trying to drag a sofa up a flight of stairs

It’s hardly Aristotle but it will do for today. Must get coffee now (oh and replace the filter as it keeps sticking)

Hayley Packham, Aged 38 and 11 days