Is there a more comical phrase, from the mouth of someone pushing 60, than ‘I'm an orphan now'?
There may be rivals. ‘Suella Braverman,’ for example, ‘she's nice.’ Or ‘I love flying Ryanair.’
For all that, there is something so innately amusing about a decaying sea monster echoing a red-haired moppet singing about tomorrow being a day away… Suffice it to know that I've been using that line relentlessly of late, and been rewarded with grins.
Orphanhood commenced in late July, when my mother
