All the growth in emerging markets that we were banking on to keep the global economy chugging along, it's actually not going to happen in the way that we originally thought it was going to happen.
Yes, we're in the official "dog days" of summer and MLS teams are chugging along, rotating squads with each whirr of the ceiling fan, reluctantly giving up players for the Gold Cup and generally just trying to not be mathematically eliminated before the weather cools down a little.
One hundred yards of chugging down a busy urban waterway and "otter!" shouted our friend Laura, and we passed within two metres of a happy-looking beast.
A purveyor of characterless, chugging pop with a southern twang, Bryan's main innovation seems to be not wearing a stetson on stage.
We seem to have forgotten that muddle and confusion, a lack of any deeper platonic truth in any of this, are why referees exist in the first place, that they are a grudging necessity, like corner flags or crossbars, there simply to keep the spectacle chugging along.
The rush I got seeing our train – the Africa Express – for the first time, chugging towards us at the station, didn't leave until the tour was over.
But once the economy is chugging along, the temptation is to try to get the best of both worlds, by raising rates before prices go up.
The economy was chugging along nicely, or so it seemed.
Although growth is chugging along at 3.8%, the government deficit is out of control, and investors complain of poor infrastructure.
A few nights before Republic Day, a trainload of 2,000 of the party's activists, which had been chugging north from Karnataka state towards Kashmir, was quietly turned around by officials as it passed through Maharashtra state, and sent south again.
When a nice man offered us a trip on his boat up the harbour to pick up the pilot off an ocean-going ship, off we went for 20 minutes, chugging round the harbour.
