- Getting to Australia still takes a bloody long time
- Tweeting from 37,000ft does not give you wings, it just means you are incapable of switching off
- If your client was 'wading through treacle' when you left to go on holiday, you can guarantee they will have made no progress in your absence
- Likewise, spring will also have postponed its appearance until your return
- And even then it will string it out
- Former colleagues whom you admired make great business associates and partners
- They also provide the funniest sound bites
- Twenty-three children under the age of nine make a lot of noise
- Especially in a closed environment
- Like a coach on a rugby tour
- Getting back in to a training regime at 5.30am on a Monday morning is hard work
- Being told your arms look "a bit lazy" when swimming is not offensive
- Because it is probably true
- Blaming leaky goggles will not atone you
- The bike will not ride itself, you have to actually take it out of the garage and get on it
- Undoing forty years' of running style takes a long, long, long time and far too much concentration
- Well, more than five kilometres' worth at any rate
What about you?
