Flatmates. In London, they are the closest thing to family you have. What with the weather lately and the not-so-new smoking laws, everyone I know has turned their living room into their own personal speakeasy.

And flatmates, like family, can be mixed bag. With some, it's domestic bliss. I'm actually smug about the glory of my 'wife'. But, others, well, when it's bad, it is very, very bad.

Finally, someone has put pen to paper to really get across the strange 'arrangements' we find ourselves in. 'I Lick my Cheese and Other Notes: From the Frontline of Flatsharing' by St Martin's grad, Oonagh O'Hagan is the seminal book on the strange places we find ourselves. Home.