Today we welcomed Karen into the Touretteshero family. Karen, who arrived in the UK on Friday from Costa Rica, is the fiancée of Brother Olly – a frequent visitor to the lair. Olly is Harry’s brother, not to be confused with her boyfriend Ollie.…

It’s two weeks until King Russell’s birthday.

I bought his present – an expensive but brilliant Star Wars Storm Trooper cap – about two months ago. He loves Star Wars and has lots of clothing featuring characters from the films. A particular favourite of his is a Storm Trooper t-shirt that he wears regularly.…

Shopkeeper: “Are you disturbed?”

TH: “No, I have Tourettes Syndrome. I’m not disturbed.”

Shopkeeper: “What about your hair?”

“Fingers on buzzards.”

Game over.

I went into the post office this morning and as I approached the counter I shouted,

“Hands up!”

Fortunately I’m a regular customer so this didn’t result in any panic buttons being pressed.

While I was out this evening a young man started to mimic the noises I was making. Bizarrely, he was so good at it that to begin with I was unsure whether it was me or not.

Once I’d worked it out I explained to the man that I had Tourettes.…

I’m still hitting myself in the face quite a lot and as a result I’ve found that there’s a part of my cheek that – when hit – makes my eye twitch.

I was looking at Twitter this evening and came across this tweet from three days ago:

“Managed not to laugh at the Tourettes woman on the tube who mentioned: squirrel, batman, squirrel humper, piss and Basic Instinct.”

There’s little doubt that the woman in question was me.…

I must have fallen asleep with the TV on last night because I woke up this morning to a group of cheery people blaring out a hymn.

However hard I listened to the lyrics, all I could hear was, “Emailing my everlasting God.”…

I felt much better this morning, and this afternoon I went swimming with Harry. Harry’s a friend of ours who lives nearby with her boyfriend Ollie.

“Ollie has hair.”

It’s been baking hot in London so we went straight to Hampstead Swimming Ponds, complete with ducks, geese and moorhens.…