18 things I’ll never do now

take any unnecessary risks

be this week’s guest on Desert Island Discs

save anybody’s life

steal anybody’s wife

own an Aga

write a sweeping multi-generational family saga

meet Sir David Attenborough or Dame Judi Dench

speak faultless idiomatic French

open the bowling for England at Lords

win a Booker, a BAFTA – or any other awards

commit the perfect crime

serve time

invent a handy labour-saving device

be known – like, say Tom Hanks – for being nice

live fast, and die young (or even youngish)

find anything, except itself, that rhymes with youngish.