It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.

Even flocks of white cockatoos flying in a cloud along the beach like an angel with flapping wings, raucously cried for him.

Edgar was a bit not plussed when they asked him about it. Such a problem had never occurred before, he was sure of that, and it would probably have to be […]

Billeted in seaside houses and drilled on the high school playground, routemarched through the Lammermuirs and abseiling up and down the sand cliffs, lectured at and made to deliver instant ten minute lecturettes, much of it seemed just a carry-on from the school and university corps - except that we had white bands round our shoulder straps and caps FS, and proper blancoed gaiters BD in place of Oxford's crummy leather ones.