The banks of the Thames had gardens intermixed with the buildings, and the architecture was of a lighter character, while the beautiful old Abbey rose like a queen amid her court.

This conversion process should be wasteproof. One of the major problems faced by manufacturers the world over is fighting waste.

Who both by his calfe, & his lambe wil be known, may well kill a neate and a shepe of his owne. And he that wil reare up a pyg in his house, hath cheaper his bacon, and sweter his souse.

But we should hoot briefly and diplomatically (apologetically like a Jeevesian cough), not in a roar of self-righteous rage. – 22/01/2007, Modern Manners, The Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,641-2560365,00.html