As arrant a smell-smock, for an old muttonmonger as thyself.

vapors in a nonevacuated vessel

Lo, the crab-eating frog, which lives in mangrove swamps and marshes, and is the only known modern amphibian which can tolerate salty water.

The stopping, restarting, swearing and routine self-deprecation (I'm in trouble with the vicar – eternal trouble, quips Martin) is the kind of carry-on that has fans purring with pleasure.