Why I'm going to be carving out time to do special things on my own this winter

What a week it’s been! I don’t know about you but I’ve spent a large portion of the week on edge watching CNN and refreshing the Guardian live blog and have broken all my own rules about watching TV on my laptop in bed and scrolling on my phone until the early hours. It’s been tense to watch the US election play out even as a Brit because the choice affects us all. On Thursday, we went into another lockdown here in England (there are different rules in Wales, Scotland and NI) and we have been warned it could go on longer than the four weeks we have been told about. On top of all that, I’ve had a hectic work week and have been fighting the urge to get into bed and hide under my duvet.

As many of you know last time we were put into lockdown, I chose to go and stay with my parents and moved out of London in the process. This meant I wasn’t on my own but it did present its own challenges because I was 35 and living back under my parents’ roof trying desperately not to slip into acting lik…