In real life, and by that I refer to the time spent before my life was indelibly paused by my current circumstances, I revelled in colour, texture and patterns. I was a magpie for anything that glittered and twinkled. I awarded myself extra brownie points for clashing clothes. But when choice is stripped away from you, what you’re left with is necessity, and that’s how I began dressing.

The pieces I decided to pack into my suitcase were two pairs of thermals (I exclusively wear Uniqlo’s HeatTech range), two chunky wool jumpers (one brown, one black), two pairs of jeans (one blue, one black), a pair of black loafers, some trainers for the run that I’m still waiting to do and a boxy blazer, the virtues of which I’ve extolled at large before.

“This is how I built a capsule wardrobe from scratch, and it was easier than I thought”