The sandwich toaster. It makes toasted sandwiches. Hot, buttery, cheesy, sardiney, tomatoey, anything-you-likey sandwiches.

After an unusually cold August, September felt like summer redux as a heatwave sent temperatures soaring.

The road was a straight band of tarmac and, on either side, there were strips of red dirt with paddy-melon growing over them.

She gaped at us dumbly for perhaps five seconds, then uttered an ejaculation, far from suitable to mixed company, which she had no doubt picked up from fellow-Nimrods in her hunting days.