Tom Daley is everywhere at the moment - after a far-too-brief stint on Celebrity Traitors, he’s got a new show on Channel 4 starting imminently. The series, called The Game of Wool, is one of those cosy competition styles, like Bake Off, but featuring knitting and crochet rather than oven-based larks. It’s going to be a fascinating watch… I knit so slowly I can’t really fathom anyone creating something within a set time limit.

At the same time, Tom launched a range of crochet kits exclusively with Hobbycraft, which contain all you need to make a variety of cute creatures and trinkets. The Made With Love collection features a zebra, a dog, a lemon, a peach, and the one I purchased, a pink giraffe.

Of course, once I opened the kit and had a look at the instructions, I realised I really don’t know anything about crocheting. I can make a starting loop and then a chain of never-ending stitches, but this is a bit more complicated than that.

So whilst I do have the kit, I need to put it to one side and do a crash course in crochet first. Quite the investment, this giraffe kit, it turns out.