Though the man was 'a thick, gorged, bloated monstrosity, rotund, wallowsome and flat footed', people in England, the Sydney Bulletin said, had believed in him with a profound and childlike faith.

The teacher made the student study.

Some people watch TV, others play tabletops. You might like to work out. The object is to bide your time.

On my second day in the market garden our group spent all day moving empty rhubarb boxes to one side of a courtyard and all afternoon moving them back again. ‘Makes a change from talking rhubarb in the House of Commons I expect,’ said one of my fellow labourers.