For once Bertie wasn’t to blame. He’d seen a seal basking on the St Paul’s School boathouse slipway a few times and, as we say in Ireland, passed no remark.
Crossword clue: a ditch in a desert (4, 5). I made that up. Real crossword clue in The Times yesterday: this won’t turn in the lock (5, 4) answer; canal boat.
In the world of Chips his friends are rich although, until he married Honor Guinness, he wasn’t, but he splashed out and relied on his father to stump up. He did.