Some customers could now be relied upon to send in their orders regularly and, apart from having to chivy those who had fallen behind with their payments, this allowed travellers to concentrate their energies on securing new customers and on recovering those who had been lost to competitors.

While you were traipsing round Africa, I had to take care of mum and dad!

We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.

Problems for the opposition, particularly scandals involving opposition political figures, are particularly blogworthy.