An impeccable Cockney rhyme, though it may offend purists of speech, is burnt cinders ‘windows’; whilst fairy snuff ‘fair enough’ is certainly a true rhyme despite its extra s.

The words hung between them, heavy with self-recrimination. Harriet shook her head. What was the point in this? More Poor me before she long-hauled it back across the Atlantic? She had enough baggage, thank you very much.

On the Waiatoto River, it was common for the first whitebaiter to sight the fisheries officer to shout Cup 'a tea, and this would pass on down the river from whitebaiter to whitebaiter until it reached the river mouth.

Cut all the myosotis there is.