I’ve had to adopt a similarly flexible, free-spirited attitude to cash-flow. There are helpful circumstances: my husband and I don’t want children, and we rent our flat in London so aren’t tied to a mortgage. But the way I choose to see it, no one in Britain is feeling particularly secure about their jobs right now. I was recently on holiday with a friend, a features editor at a glossy title, when she got a text from a friend within the company saying how sorry she was about the closure of that magazine. Between ordering breakfast and our eggs arriving, she’d become jobless. In this climate, arguably the “safe” route is to go it alone, build contacts, diversify, plunge your fingers into lots of professional pies.