While I grant you that it’s not up there with MS or having a stroke, I can attest to the fact that Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a deeply unpleasant condition that has a disproportionate impact on the way a sufferer must live their life.

I can also confirm that one of the few things that can make worse an IBS attack is the discovery, with one’s trousers around one’s ankles, that you are sharing a bathroom with the biggest wasp this side of Massachusetts.

Laugh? I nearly shat myself.