On the eve of the publication of a work about the past, Ferris is surprised by its relevance to the present: "When I started on this — years and years ago — we were living in a different time," she said.
Michael Palin in a suitcase, Harry Potter in a tin, the complete Rebus canon packed into a black blood-stained box – recommending good, fun audiobooks for Christmas presents when I started doing this roundup 10 years ago used to be easy, there was so much choice.
I don't know about anyone else, but there does come a point in the awards season's frantic celebration of the present when I start to feel like taking refuge in the past.
Instead of writing "an Afghan refugee", I started presenting them by their names.
And even though I still do the Scottish Widows campaign and have put on a bit of weight since I started presenting, they've never put any pressure on me.
I had an email from a woman named Linda, who presented me with what I started to call the "No, that's not it" sentence: Here is where I laid the book.
In his early days in a maximum-security penitentiary, aged 17, Tallio claimed he felt afraid of his fellow inmates and sensed an ever-present chance of violence; "I started getting into the weight room and putting on weight," he's said, "in case I needed to fight".
I started presenting as openly trans when I started high school, and I just feel so much more in place than I did in middle school.
So nearly two decades ago, I started shopping for holiday presents to give to less fortunate kids.
To see if this difference was present: (i) at the start of training; and (ii) when the eight-arm and one-arm groups were matched for the number of trials completed, we compared responses early (trials 1 5) and late in training (trials 26 30).
