One of my favourite accounts that I follow on Instagram is from an ‘influencer’ called Candice Brathwaite, who promotes fashion and make up products. I don’t know how I found Candice, but I was hooked from the minute I heard her and she has become one of my daily joys.

There’s nothing that Candice promotes that I will ever buy: her style is not my style and I don’t really wear make up. So Candice and I are an unlikely pairing. The marketing men in suits from the companies that pay her to promote their products won’t be getting any money from me.

What I’m interested in is what Candice says and how she says it. She’s totally natural on camera and she makes me laugh. What she tends to do is to drop the product in and then she quickly moves on to the most wonderfully engaging storytelling.

This week Candice talked about a young man she had a relationship with when she was 14, and since then she has lost contact with him. But the memory of him has stayed with her, and he reappears in her thoughts regularly: