Being a native of Northumberland, she was enjoying their banter and Geordie good humour. This was what she needed — good company and good crack.

The venerable father of the human race had now himself paid the debt of nature.

Among other clerihew writers one can find the name of J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and the most famous at present trilogy The Lord of the Ring[s] widely read and enjoyed by adults and children alike.

He had the same problem as she did getting the lock open.