The Roystones took advantage of the long half-term break and went to Paris.

A few birches and oaks still feathered the narrow ravines, or occupied in dwarf clusters the hollow plains of the moor.

Because many drugs produce a sexlike pleasure, there is a close relationship between drug taking and sex. Both sexual and drug-induced sensations command attention and condition the brain to seek repetition of the experience.

Part of him is still so much the newbie, amazed to find this place of sand and sun stuck onto the ass end of the greatest city in the world, but the rest of him has relaxed into acceptance already. He's Zen like that.