Whenever things were getting on top of me over the year to come - the birds not showing, the distances too vast, the weather and the fatigue too overwhelming - I would think back to that anoraked figure quivering with derision and use the image of his smirking mug to keep going, determined that one day I would bump into him and quietly say, `I did it.'

[…] there was in all their minds a mute questioning of deference and chivalry, of the Bank of England and the Indian Empire, of ringed fingers and lace, though to them all there was something in this of the essence of beauty, which called out the manliness in their girlish hearts, and made them, as they sat at table beneath their mother's eyes, honour her strange severity […]

St Johnstone boss Derek McInnes had made two changes, with Callum Davidson, who has now recovered from injury, the replacement for crocked fellow defender David McCracken and David Robertson taking the place of Chris Millar in midfield.

[A] nucleus of thinkers at Columbia . . . formed a loose federation of like minds. . . . Most were influenced by European social science, in particular by psychoanalysis and depth psychology, which offered more fruitful diagnostic methods than the tired formulas of Marxism and the class struggle.