Embracing the chaos

As a stationery-lover, I love new year. The lure of a crisp new page –as perfect as a fresh snowfall – is something I look forward to every year. But this year is the first where I’ve written a daily diary.

My 2021 diary is bloated with notes and to-do lists and is a hot mess of almost indecipherable scrawling. I can practically hear my old teachers saying with a sigh, ‘and you used to have such beautiful handwriting.’

For a long time, that sort of thinking held me back. I had beautiful notebook...