Then somebody is going to storm off the course when past suspicions are now confirmed.

FORBES: Apps May Kill Golf As We Know It

Every possible scenario was prepared for and only Lord Winston's controversial remarks, later denied, that Cherie was going to have a caesarean section threw things temporarily off course.

BBC: How to spin a baby

Silence-Lotto leader Evans completed the course in one hour five minutes and 55 seconds for seventh place, but Sastre, going off last man, rode the time trial of his life to concede only 29 seconds to the Australian.

CNN: Sastre keeps yellow jersey in Tour de France

Those going abroad also have to build in the cost of travel and accommodation, and, of course, time off work.

BBC: The cost of fertility treatment 'tourism'

The tricky thing is of course that such trade-offs inevitably at some point somewhere down the line lead to something going seriously off the rails.

FORBES: The BP oil rig disaster -- better brace yourself: there is surely more to come