I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling a tramload of business people up the hill.

1658: If any shall doubt why at the Amphidromicall Feasts, on the fifth day after the Childe was born presents were sent from friends, of Polipusses, and Cuttle-fishes? — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 213)

When a motorbike sped too fast down their little side street, … Daeng and Nat would be revisiting many ranting conversations they'd had about motorbikes treating this tiny soi like it was the highway.

It is no coincidence that when chefs Bocuse and Vergé organised a stratospherically expensive Mediterranean cruise […] they called on the skills of their friend Lenôtre to produce Bocuse's legendary truffle soup.