CHRIS HEWETT

YOU can do quite a lot in 12 weeks: walk the full length of the South West Coast Path without killing yourself, for instance, or master the fundamentals of a foreign language, as long as it’s not Mandarin.
If you’re as clever as the great cricket writer and political philosopher CL R James, you might even sit down and write something as substantial as World Revolution from first capital letter to final full stop, as he did after hiring a room in a Brighton boarding house in 1938.
In all likelihood, the South African lock Ryno Pieterse will do none of these th...