But he would happily trade all of the above for 12 hours a day in front of a computer.

I would happily trade 20 camels - the four-legged variety - for a night at Anatoli.

Indeed, some economists would happily trade the whole mess of preferences now accorded to capital gains in return for inflation indexing.

Much as I like tea, I'd happily trade my teapots for Neil Patrick Harris.

There are plenty of countries with equally repressive regimes that happily trade with 'the west' without copping the treatment Burma has endured.

Last week, though, he happily traded sunshine for the old spotlight.

I would happily trade one of his $45 dinners for two of those $30 bistro meals recently reviewed in these columns.

Investment banks peddle him clients, venture capitalists bring start-ups to his attention, and entrepreneurs happily trade autonomy for a little piece of Cisco.

I will happily trade my amphibian immortality to ensure he is still here in a 100 years' time.

That meant there were always those who would happily trade an older, "precarious perch" for a newly-chiseled burrow.