‘I keep all the plates spinning because if I stop, I’m forced to face my thoughts’

“I was so bored,” my hairdresser recently recalled about the first lockdown, the one where we were boxed into a 2km radius of our homes. The salon was closed and she had burned through as many Netflix series as she could think of. Boredom, I’m sorry to say, was not something I experienced during lockdown.  That’s because I had too many plates spinning. You see, there was my first job – a charity worker, scrambling...