Once I overcome my collywobbles , I discover that my punting skills, acquired decades ago on rivers Cherwell and Cam, have a direct application to paddle boarding.

Once I overcome my collywobbles , I discover my punting skills, acquired decades ago on rivers Cherwell and Cam, have a direct application to paddle-boarding.

Gloom as South West firms get the collywobbles over Brexit

Meanwhile, David Summers-Cooke was announced as the winner of this year's spoof art award, the Turnip Prize, for Collywobbles - a toy dog standing on jelly.

Midland boozer The Starving Rascal is hoping to give customers the collywobbles this Halloween - after being named as one of the three most haunted pubs in the country.

Having spent decades in the spotlight, it is no surprise that Gabrielle remains unfazed by fame: she has an easy familiarity, and no qualms about revealing middle-aged angst and body-image collywobbles . At various points in our conversation, she will cheerfully anoint herself a "big bird" and "old bag", though she has an air of many a rejoining-the-workforce mum, gratefully but apprehensively getting back in the saddle now that her youngest approaches the last lap of school.

Who amongst us is so small of heart and rickety of resolve that anyone eating or drinking in front of us gives us the collywobbles ? A lot, that's who.

Without going into the sort of detail that has me regularly shunned at parties, it meant that at midnight on Millennium Eve, many computers would think it was the year 1900, causing their software to experience anything from mild collywobbles to a full-on nervous breakdown.

OH dear, life on the cobbles has given me the right collywobbles this week as I'm torn between Eva and Maria in Coronation Street's tawdry love triangle.

"The dark side of the rise of machines and the sudden obsolescence of so many careers and jobs; the potential for crime, exploitation, extortion; suppression and surveillance; and even newer forms of cyberterrorism, give us the collywobbles " - Stephen Fry (pictured).

Imagine how foreign leaders will react when they see the unelected PM suffer an attack of the collywobbles over such an international agreement, which has been years in the making.