I had always thought I would know when it was our last walk. But it never crossed my mind, as we ambled home from the Heath one early spring evening, that this could be our last walk.

I didn't go to Oxbridge. I went to the London College of Printing, a concrete mausoleum. Fast-forward 25 years, and I was invited to the Cambridge Union to take part in a debate.

To the outside world I'm cool, calm and collected, immaculately dressed and perfectly coiffed at all times.

When 42-year-old French lawyer Tiphaine Auziere uploaded some holiday snaps of her boyfriend to her social media pages recently, she probably had no idea of the fuss it would…

I had always thought I would know when it was our last walk. But it never crossed my mind, as we ambled home from the Heath one early spring evening, that this could be our last…