For 45 years, I've had my hair dyed at a salon every six weeks. Until now...

Learning how to cope might just be the silver lining to this awful situation. Most of us will emerge having taught ourselves to do something new, says Jenny Eclair

Jenny Eclair has had her hair dyed blonde at a professional salon since the age of 15 (Alamy)

I cried the other day. Not just because lockdown now seems endless, but also because nobody can come and fix anything when something goes wrong. We’re on our own.

Case in point: after struggling for a month with the sound quality of lockdown podcasting, this week my podcast co-host and I attempted something new. This involved a massive microphone each, mine casting a phallic shadow on my study wall, some headphones and our producer hosting the show through something called Cleanfeed.

Sounds simple, only Cleanfeed can only be accessed via Google Chrome, which I had to download six times before my desktop computer finally decided to accept the updated version. By the time we were ready to record, I was the colour of beetroot and bathed in sweat.