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“It got decided without me,” she said with a laugh. “There are 19 of us and nobody wanted to host it so everyone decided to come to mine.
“I was looked after a lot when I lived at home. I always used to get everything done for me because my mum wanted to make my life easier. She knew how hard I trained so she’d always have my food ready when I came back.
“Now I have to get up, sort the dogs out, feed them, puppy train them, clean up after them, make my own food, make sure the house looks nice – there’s always a long list of things to do, but I’m managing it.
“Dogs are harder than children though. Children can go to the toilet in their nappies but dogs do it on your carpet!”
As fate would have it, Johnson-Thompson had far more time to devote to puppy training than she would have wanted this year.
After soaring to the top of the world rankings – a position she would maintain at the end of the season – with a personal best of 6,682 points at the prestigious Hypo Meeting in Götzis in June, she was immediately installed as favourite for the Commonwealth Games and European Championships. A stress fracture in her foot denied her those medal chances, leaving her unable to compete after setting a long jump personal best of 6.92?metres at the start of July. That distance would have won her European gold if she had competed in the individual discipline as planned. Forced to watch events in Glasgow and Zurich from afar, she was consigned to sit at home for 10 weeks nursing an injury that she could not even feel.
“It’s annoying because everything was working up to the Commonwealth Games,” she recalled while taking a break from mentoring young athletes, coaches and officials at the Youth Sport Trust National Talent Camp.
“I’m world No?1 but I haven’t got a medal to prove it. I always knew this year was a weird year because there wasn’t a global event, but Götzis was like the unofficial world championships, because everyone who was anyone was there.
“Coming away from that on top and then still being on top at the end of the season was a bit surreal for me because I never imagined [this success] would happen so soon.
“Obviously, getting injured was frustrating, but it was a great season for me when I look back at what I achieved and how far I’ve come since the Olympics.”
With training now back in full swing, Johnson-Thompson can resume her quest to follow in Ennis-Hill’s wake by winning gold at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Ennis-Hill herself is looking to return to the sport after a year out to have a baby, so the battle between the reigning champion and the young pretender should provide an interesting sub-plot to a season already overshadowed by doping allegations.
A German documentary aired this month alleged that 99 per cent of Russian athletes used banned substances as part of a systematic doping regime. Days later, three Britons were included in a list of 225 athletes who provided suspicious blood samples that may not have been acted upon by the IAAF.
“It’s shocking isn’t it?” Johnson-Thompson said. “As an athlete, it always enters your head when an athlete is doing suspiciously well. But you can’t assume they are cheating because, for example, when I was trying to get into the Olympics I went from 5,750 [points] to 6,150.
“That’s a huge gap but it was just through hard work and wanting to be in a home Olympic Games, so you can’t suspect everyone of taking drugs.”
If she can stay free of injury this year, Johnson-Thompson should be responsible for putting athletics on the back pages for all the right reasons. As long as she can get through hosting Christmas first.
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