RULE BRITANNIA

Iʼs said that nobody pushes your buttons in quite the same way as your mother because she put them there herself. Thatʼs certainly true of my much-loved but occasionally infuriating mum, Adriana. Everybody else thinks that she is utterly delightful, but there is no person in the whole world who can make me grind my teeth so vigorously and so often.

You might therefore think that confining myself to a cruise ship with my darling mother – sharing a cabin, no less – might well be asking for fireworks and disaster. But while we can admittedly drive each other up the wall, we're not getting any younger: and I'm keen to share fun times while we