The upgrades, set to support up to 14,000 new homes in Southwark and Lewisham, include further signalling adjustments to shorten block sections and enable a 20tph service [20 trains per hour], along with an upgrade of Surrey Quays station including provision of step-free access and construction of a new station at Surrey Canal Road.

“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It’s absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.

The polka dots are scars left by the cookiecutter shark, a thalassophobia-inducing creature with jaws designed to remove round plugs of flesh.

After the heavy rains, the river was no longer easily crossable.