Like talking to yourself. Ordering pantry items in alphabetical order. Storing balled-up socks in colour-coordinated rows in a drawer. Buying microwave meals for one when you should be cooking from scratch, because you really do love to cook. And fantasising – writing lists of things you’d like to do, imagining a life that isn’t yours, all from the comfort of your sofa. Mine are rather like New Year’s resolutions. Except I make them at any time of the year, whenever I think my life needs reviving
