He was on his way to Cleveland, Ohio to visit the steelworks there, review their working practices and sort out any problems. He knew there would be some, they had recently installed a new casting system that he had helped to develop, and the plant back home had experienced some teething troubles.

Yash, this strange-lookin old skeezicks is my brother Reef.

‘Non-erotic male bonding, that’s the thing isn’t it; what our ocker cousins call “mateyness”.’

the indentations of a leaf