There are tissues in every corner of every room in my mother’s house. In the bathroom there are nine identical boxes of them disguised as...

‘Oh God’ I whisper, as my forehead rests on the steering wheel. It’s been a long day and I’m feeling truly ‘thin and stretched’ to coin a...

I have a disturbing ability to find dark humour in the most stressful of situations - and I credit this to my British ancestry. It has...