The great thing about ageing is that your eyesight deteriorates at the same rate as your face. So I can't see how bad things are getting.

I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.

I had an operation on my cornea when I was little, and remember being deeply enamoured with the team who looked after me.

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