I stood outside the door for a space, letting I dare not wait upon I would, as Jeeves tells me cats do in adages, then turned the handle softly, pushed – also softly – and, carrying on into the interior, found myself confronted by a girl in housemaid's costume who put a hand to her throat like somebody in a play and leaped several inches in the direction of the ceiling. Coo! she said, having returned to terra firma and taken aboard a spot of breath. You gave me a start, sir! […] If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now. Coo! So he is.

Though some of my adaptations are deliberate, […] most have occurred by themselves, unconsciously, by reprogrammings and adaptations of which I know nothing […]

There are two bars, and one of them only sells cans– 500 ml cans of Budweiser or Bulmers, that's the drinks list. The other bar has a special on Fat Frogs. The queue is four deep. Fifty-euro notes are waved in the air in an effort to[…]

Schlepitchka is a texturing trick done by twirling a feather duster or flogger around gently and dabbing it on the surface of the scenery between each twirl of the tool so that the splayed pattern prints on the scenery.