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.

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.

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[…]