After pulling our boat up the beach there wasn’t much to do but collapse onto the sand and get stuck into some serious drinking.

Could you call Dave and sort out a meeting for tomorrow?

You have to tramp three or four versts to get to the exhibition of war loot, past Fabergé eggs and the Impressionists.

John Birdsall, a scientist for the American Meat Institute, said that there were no industry qualms about trying to lower the nitrite amounts even farther. For centuries, some form of nitrites have been used to cure and to preserve bacon and to give it a pink color.