Lebanese restaurants are especially good for vegetarians, with falafel rolls (pitta bread stuffed with chickpea patties, hummus and tabbouleh) making an inexpensive, filling meal.

The vacuum brake, much beloved by English- (though not Scottish-) built or inspired railways, but little favoured elsewhere.

Past yin o ' clock, and a dark, haary moarnin' : I recalled the bull voice of the watchman as he had called it on the night of our escape from the Castle — […] In the thickening envelope of sea fog I felt like a squirrel in a rotatory cage.

A pod of ferals was moving towards the exit, a half-dozen soap-shy, low-tech, bush-dwelling hippies.