He stepped away from the sink, put up the toilet ring (Vi complained bitterly if he forgot to put it down when he was through, but never seemed to feel any pressing need to put it back up when she was), and addressed the John.

On the subject of permanent structures, the NYMR has Grosmont Tunnel (lined throughout), but only five overbridges, three of the last-named being the County Councils's [sic] reponsibility for repair.

[…] his own tone and rhetoric might have been part of the reason for the outbreak of knuckleheadery and half-cockedness in the first place.

The usual form of contract is a 50 per cent agreement whereby the share milker provides the herd and farm machinery, and is responsible for all farm operations, in return for which he receives half the butterfat cheque, plus a proportion of any additional income such as bobby calves.