It is not a nice place to look at, rough you know,” he smiled, and his right eye winked at Frayne: “But the corned beef and cabbage, and the waffles. Mm!” He smaked his lips with desire.

Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft … — Shropshire Archives, 1835

Finance-starved housing associations were encouraged by government from 2004 to stretch their balance sheets to buy land in competition with private builders. Many are now in financial distress, having paid too much in the boom years for developments they cannot afford to build out.

As I stood there someone stepped crunchingly on the gravel path before the shuttered windows. I turned, and there was Pengelly.