The laithe house incorporates a barn as well as a byre, which the other house-barns do not.

There are plenty of discounted Christmas items in the Boxing Day sale.

The scent of the root of meum athamanticum (Jacq.), spignel (also called Spikenel or Spiknel), meu or baldmoney, has much in common with that of both Lovage and Angelica, and the root has been eaten by the Scotch Highlanders as a vegetable.

Like Hamlet, he's got an 'eatupus complex', indulging in incestuous cunnilinguistics underneath the 'squirtscreen' of his octopus-ink; and he also eats too much, bulimically devouring and regurgitating other people's words[…]