start off

“It’s on a Sunday so you start off your week a little bit more motivated, having a little bit more fun, especially because people get caffeinated, it’s like a burst of energy without having any alcohol,” Alvarado said.

“And he always did this. He’d start off with Robert being completely out of touch and by the end of the season he’d actually come around to understanding. It was a bit of a repeated joke that I kept going to Julian, ‘Why has Robert’s IQ gone down?’

"You need some basis to start off with and that's what Africa Next Voices is and then people will build on top of that and add their own innovations," says Prof Marivathe, who led the research in South Africa.

"They start off just as wire and we wrap them with fabric and then we add the gems on."

The whole thing about recovery is it’s a marathon, and looking back on my attempts, there have been so many where I just start off out of the gate just flying, like, ‘Get out of his way!’