This is what happened: our editor, bearing in mind that Emma and I are very different, asked us to swap holidays.
All in all, the collaborative consumption startup is pretty bullish about its growth prospects, citing research that shows that more than twice as many people are planning home swap holidays in 2012 vs 2011 – a rise from 1.6 million to over 3.2 million in the UK, apparently.
If we had sex, it wouldn't be legal, because we're already practically conjoined twins!" Cameron Diaz - her beaming, hyperactive face almost entirely devoid of ordinary human emotion - plays Amanda, a movie executive who has come to England on a cute "house swap" holiday with a stressed English journalist called Iris (Kate Winslet).
This isn't a social network for employees to chit chat and swap holiday cookie recipes.
My wife and I plan to take extended home-swap holidays in the US of up to six months at a time, but I suffer from rheumatoid arthritis for which I have Myocrysin (Gold) injections of 20mg once every two weeks.
Holiday Showdown, the first of the six-part series, which was originally screened on ITV2 and features families swapping holidays, earned 2.7 million viewers and a 12% share.
We may be leaving the European Union soon, but our involvement with it, good or bad, goes back to just about every era, and it is not especially a matter of drinking each other's wine or swapping holidays, but the history of each other's victories or alliances and shifts of people.
We were born only two weeks apart, so we celebrate our birthdays every January at the same Mexican restaurant, swapping holiday war stories.
People love swapping holiday shopping stories: the nightmares, the finds and the victories.
With the nation undergoing something of a spiritual revival, more companies are seeking to accommodate employees' religious needs by initiatives like letting people swap religious holidays, organizing prayer breakfasts or spiritual retreats, setting aside prayer rooms and even hiring on-site corporate chaplains.
I wouldn't swap a holiday in Cornwall for one in Abu Dhabi or Dubai myself, but for young sun worshippers it must be an ideal place to relax.
