Two-fifths

With Adam now in Australia (although gallivanting at a conference in Montreal) and Ruth singing in a choir, it left Jackie, Lorna and I from our old biology course gang to meet after work in London to eat and chew the fat.

When we met outside our first year tutor's office in 2001, waiting in line while he combed his wildly bushy eyebrows, we didn't expect to be meeting for dinner in 2017, talking about men.

When she isn't in Côte d'Ivoire working on malaria prevention, Jackie goes for types who you'd bump into at an indie concert and Lorna wishes she'd fancied someone she went on a date with recently, because he had his own wine cellar. There are always plenty of hilarious japes with this lot.

On the train down a woman called her partner to start warming up the soup so that all she'd need to do on returning was 'add the sorrel'. Only on the Cambridge train would this ever be overheard.