After six months in a tedious desk job, Anna wants out.

Other managers pointed out that more often than not this type of shutter can be levered from the wall easily or pushed into a window by a ram-raider; that shutters were difficult to operate manually and prone to operational faults; that they acted as something of a magnet to graffiti 'artists'; and that they prevented goods from remaining on display when stores were shut.

I have seen many strange things in my saunterings around London.

There was a “pole” duly graduated, and on it, so as to slip up and down, were certain cross-pieces known as “transversaries.”