I was sure it was just indigestion but the pain in my chest and the sudden eruption of an epic sweat made my colleagues ring an ambulance. The paramedics were there quickly and were sufficiently worried to take me into A&E. Once there I was wheeled into a side room and one of the doctors came to see me. Embarrassingly it turned out to be Jill, a young doctor I saw occasionally at parkrun. She ran with a group of medics th...

I’m an author. The fact I haven’t written any stories for Lush isn’t the surprise, but it is, perhaps, surprising. Recently I’ve had moderate success with a couple of books. Again, not the surprise, but it definitely did surprise me when the publisher started asking me to attend the sales events. Over the last year, I’ve been to six of them. They’re kind of fun. Occasionally, I run into people who’ve even actually read th...