Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone's control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

My brain surprises even me sometimes.

Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they’ve nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?

I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry.

The only reason to delay at this point was because the immediate prospect was so deeply uninviting.