Life is always going to be a series of ouch-making moments, and the question was, was I going to go all fetal position, or was I going to woman up? I went into fetal position on the bed to think about this. Fetal position turned out to be very comfortable.

Tell me what you want, what you really, really want," he said. "Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison.

Did I just kill someone?" "You can't kill a dead person," Callum said. "Makes no sense.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

Why Paris? Paris needs no reason. Paris is its own reason.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.