Which was a shame as I was steering, and failed to notice a bloody great log stretched across the water.
A mark of the long way that ME studies have to go can be seen in the work of the National ME Observatory, a lottery-funded project of which I am on the steering committee, which has to conduct the kinds of basic social research, such as piloting an ME disease register, that researchers on other illnesses take for granted.
In the past six years the programme, for which I am a member of the steering committee, has produced an atlas of the remnants of native vegetation, supported 75 research projects, trained about 250 post-graduate students, catalogued approximately 10,000 species and made data from 35 biological collections freely available.
Hague was behind the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict initiative which the Foreign Office launched last year and has set up a steering group, of which I am a member.
But also because the "iceberg" towards which Osborne is steering Britain is not a lone one.
Blood family "On behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men, so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition, but can sing openly as you planned".
Walgreen may not know for certain which plans are steering big orders to mail vendors, but says it will find out using internal sleuthing.
They felt insecure about the lack of a contract and were frustrated by the direction in which Heart Management was steering them.
But John Lewis, a director of the HCA and chief executive of the Milton Keynes Partnership, which is steering growth in the town, insists: "No developer has walked off site and said we are stopping, which has happened elsewhere.
The energy built even more when we finally got on the track and were allowed one lap around to make sure our steering on the racing chair was in order (racing chairs have compensators attached, which are steering devices that compensate for the turns in the track so racers don't have to constantly steer through a turn).
Central to it all, he believes, is the selfish decision-making of certain stakeholders which is steering the global game into deeply worrying territory.
