When does money run out of time? The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return; when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.

My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.

I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.

I have too much money invested in sweaters.

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.