You step outside, locking your door and activating your home security system merely by visualising an image - it could be the colour of your lover's eyes, an oak leaf, or the hamster you had when you were six - in a biometric passthought keyed to your unique brainwave pattern.

He could always just leave on the next train to Nanking, or the little steamboat to Soochow.

The man from Drury sent them a few hundred bulbs to get started, they found some other big growers from Tauranga, and went on a 'tiki-tour' of calla lilies discovery.

the constant meowings of the neighbour's cats