2023“My personal tutor at school said this to me. She actually said it to the whole year group in assembly when we left school. It was a place I didn’t think I’d be sorry to miss and the kind of people I was around I didn’t think would influence me.

”It wasn’t until afterwards that I realised that what she’d said and other things people had said to me at that school had actually influenced me. This reminds me of that time that I didn’t think was that important but actually held me in good stead for what I’ve ended up doing, really.

Our subject Polly Allen has not one, but two blogs! A travel one and a fashion one.

Taken in the Long Acre bar in central London, UK.