Best of letter to my younger self christmas 2025

My preoccupations at 16 were, I think, twofold. Firstly, passing my exams to get to university. I was really, really focused on that. But secondly, it was round about that age that I started to get re

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→ What have been your cultural highlights of 2025? At the David Lean Cinema we’ve been doing All of Us Strangers walks this year. So there is a sort of pilgrimage walk to all the locations. And there’

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We can’t predict exactly how you’ll be feeling as the year comes to a close, but our best guess is that you’ll be in need of a breather. Because for many of us, 2025 has not been painless. Political t

When I was 16, I was right in the middle of my tidying research. Every day after school, I would go around tidying the entire house. I was constantly thinking about things like “How can I maintain a t