That I'd happily exchange months of my sedentary two-kids-and-a-house life for just a fraction of the time he'd spent following a minor league baseball team, a women's punk rock band and Jewish mystics.

I would happily exchange my present abode for a willow cabin.

Seated on a couple of chairs, one massive arm draped over the back of a third chair and his booted feet propped up on a fourth, Macumail sipped at a foam-crested mug as he happily exchanged war stories with a pair of Nelanther pirates.

A perfume organ allows you to experiment with your perfect eau, and if you don't come up smelling of roses, they'll happily exchange your fragrance.

I hope these are to your satisfaction; the bank across the street will happily exchange them, I assure you.

Coins with Scrainwood's face on them were quickly and happily exchanged for the new one, and Oriosa's minters were working all hours to meet demand.

But I would have happily exchanged some of that impressive retro styling for better lighting and a Wi-Fi signal that actually made it all the way to my room.

She was sitting with half a dozen old husbands at a table in some wide avenue on board the Great Ship, and she was listening while the six of them, each from a different species, happily exchanged stories about their little onetime wife.

That said, I'd happily exchange all of them (apart from Evan Davies) for Stephanie Flanders, or any of the female presenters on Newsnight for that matter.

With a self-consciousness that diminished daily, we oohed and aahed and exchanged happily guilty meditations on our good fortune, and la dolce vita.