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Newsom rose to the occasion, using his greatest asset: invaluable communication skills coupled with telegenic looks.

On this, it’s hard to argue: Care work, the work that makes all other work possible, is invaluable — though it certainly isn’t valued.

The brothers had several things in their favour, Geoff says, including being young and fit and, crucially, they were wearing wetsuits, which provided invaluable buoyancy aid.

With Noah, he learns this skill that he has been doing over the years, and that kind of knowledge is invaluable.

“That was me 40 years ago, dispensing invaluable advice to the band that couldn’t shoot straight,” he said, sitting on an indoor bike and wearing a boldly colored tracksuit.