This has been the most intensely productive and challenging years of my career – and by far the most rewarding. If I had to pick one highlight, it would be the special edition of Huck that’s about to drop in January. But that’s top secret for now!

Looking back, some of the best memories include: speaking about publishing at a live Q&A in Dublin; commissioning wide-ranging reportage features in Venezuela, Finland, London and India; interviewing personal heroes like George Clinton, Desiree Akhavan and the Beastie Boys; trekking to rural wales for a cover story on downhill mountain-bike star Tahnee Seagrave in Red Bulletin; celebrating skate culture for Mr Porter; speaking with legendary photographers Susan Meiselas, Bieke Depoorter and Mikiko Hara; reflecting on my early days of graft in music journalism for this chronology of the Quietus, pulling together the most entertainingly scathing reviews of 2018 for the BBC, and searching so hard for potential stories that I found this activist travelling across the US on horseback and this sports designer inspiring a sisterhood of shred. Phew!

But I have a feeling that 2019 will be even better…