There I was, standing in the kitchen talking to my mum, who was uncorking some champagne.

When suddenly, the cork fired out out of the bottle with a loud bang, ricocheted off a kitchen cabinet, skimmed the back of my head, and amazingly landed right in the bin! She couldn’t have managed that if she’d tried.

If I’d been standing just one inch closer to the sink I’m sure I would’ve had the cork smack me in the side of the head! I felt it graze my hair so I knew it was pretty close to hitting me.

My mum had her hand around the top of the bottle as she was pulling the cork out, but as it shot out unexpectedly there was nothing she could do to stop it. I’m really glad she’d been pointing it at a cupboard and not directly at me. Could’ve been very nasty.

I don’t really want to be killed by a champagne cork, it is a rather embarrassing way to go.