It is a truth universally acknowledged that if, in the first three weeks of moving into your home, you do not unpack the cardboard box full of shoes, then you will become a person who keeps their shoes in a cardboard box. The ability to adapt has ensured the survival of the human race, but it can also get you into some fairly lunatic living patterns. My partner and I bought a tiny table-top ironing board when we moved into a large loft-style apartment with very high . . .

Eamonn got fat; Lewis got thin. Chris manages a Poundstretcher and dreams of becoming a policeman. Jane is married and is giving birth to her first baby next month. She was the first girl I kissed. Facebook is a funny thing. The popular perception of my relationship with Wales is that I burned all bridges with it. When I was 16, I left my childhood town of Pontypridd for Cumbria while everyone else stayed behind. Our lives diverged at this point: I lived in a bedsit, . . .