Like blossoming flowers, we unfurled from the constricted, suspicious and anxious individuals we were on the first day into open, warm, accepting and receptive individuals. Bhupinder 'Puppy' Singh Johal — handsome, rakish and spiritually disenfranchised — has left behind the immigrant neighbourhood of Southall to mix with the elite of metropolitan London society.

I have not doubt if he gets a more interesting subject matter, and a better directed plot that he will become a very successful author. Gehraiyaan’s promotional material isn’t hiding anything, with clips showing Padukone’s character Alisha losing herself in clinches with her illicit lover Zain (Siddhant Chaturvedi), her cousin’s fiance. At first he didn't mind, he says, thought it was a bit cool, even, though he says he didn't read the columns.

A sparrowhawk did this,” Nick Goldsmith gleefully tells me, pointing excitedly to a few feathers scattered about in his private patch of woodland in Pensford, Somerset.

He wrote about the relationship in The Telegraph in July 2021: "Our marriage was doomed from our wedding day: an occasion I felt swindled into, having never proposed.In all honesty, I couldn't stand the main character, the lewd gratuitous descriptions of sex, there didn't seem to be any kind of plot or direction - but I simply COULD NOT put it down.

I will never forget pouring with sweat as I thrashed a cushion with a plastic bat, finally expressing all the rage I kept withheld in my body. We honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuous connection to Country, waters, skies and communities.

After a life lived like that, it was no surprise when, two years ago, I found myself broke and single, depressed and heavily overweight, surfing the internet for the most convenient way to terminate myself.