They didn’t teach her how to manage a drill at the convent, so now she is going back to school to find her way around a toolbox.

They didn’t teach her how to manage a drill at the convent, so now she is going back to school to find her way around a toolbox.

Emma Freud spends a day combining hands-on crafting with head-exploding moral philosophy — stuffing a mouse.

The process might be slow and humiliating, but the result is unalloyed and long-term happiness.

Emma Freud on the pleasures of maturity, including chatting to birds and the perfect cheese toastie.


Banish the daily existential crisis of choosing what to wear by finding the benefits of a capsule uniform, says Emma Freud.