sMothered: Woman helps daughter insert colonic irrigation tube

An overly-familiar mother helped her daughter ‘put the nozzle in her behind’ for her first colonic irrigation as the pair got treatments together in sMothered. Tonight’s episode of the TLC show – which chronicles the lives of six mother-daughter duos who share an unusually close bond – focuses on 55-year-old Mary and her daughter Brittani, … Read more

TOM UTLEY: I wish religion was as easy to take up as, say, colonic irrigation

As my mother lay on her deathbed, visitors who asked her how she was feeling would get one of three answers: ‘I’m very well, thank you’; ‘I’m blooming’; or, ‘I’m in the pink’. You didn’t have to be a consultant oncologist to realise this wasn’t strictly true. For one thing, she was so ill towards … Read more