Save Share Back in the age of enforced walking, when the only way to see anyone was to do circles around the local park, I went on a walk with a friend I hadnât seen for a while. As we trudged, I started saying something about having reinvented myself â but she cut me off. How you can reinvent yourself, she asked, when you didnât invent yourself in the first place? This was just the sort of clever-dick thing I might have said myself, pre-reinvention, when I was still a sarky newspaper columnist. Kellaway in 2015 when she worked as a columnist for the Financial Times.Â