OPINION - It's like One Day, 365 days a year: how keeping a diary helped me chart the rollercoaster of my 20s
July 15, 2019. The day after my first big breakup. According to the little dog-eared five-year diary I keep in the drawer next to my bed, I cycled into work in my biggest pair of sunglasses and my best friend met me on a bench with a packet of Sainsbury’s strawberry pencils because I couldn’t face the thought of going home to my flat.
The same day the following year looked pretty different, unsurprisingly. This frightening thing called coronavirus had arrived (yep,, David Nicholls’ famed novel-turned- like me.
