A baby left on a doorstep in swaddling clothes - the baby was wearing them, not the doorstep - on Christmas Eve in 1899 had a note pinned to the basket he lay in, which said, 'This is David Learmont.'  The note said that, not the basket.  It's no breeze, this writing lark.

Waiting for a bus, I'm burning to death in this heat.  To make matters worse, I'm dying of thirst.  And I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.  It doesn't help that my feet are killing me and my briefcase weighs a ton.  An earlier bus took forever to arrive, so that was a non-starter.  At least it isn't raining cats and dogs.

Everyone likes to receive a reward now and then, it's not an ambition restricted only to bounty hunters.  There is an assortment of bounties for a range of folks, neither pun intended.   

There are some crimes you aren't aware you are committing, and we are told that ignorance of the law is no excuse, so most of us are probably criminals, technically at least.  I'm hoping it's technically in your case as well as mine.

For decades there have been plans to build a second airport to serve Lisbon. What would cost a half billion at that time is now estimated to be four million euros, I guess five.

Pandemics aren't the only things that can seem to turn the whole world upside down.  Or topsy-turvy, as we might describe it, if this were a cartoon for children.  (Don't say it!)  

Many people are surprised by the hate between leaders and extremists, as in Brazil, Ukraine and Korea. In many countries, as in Sweden, Austria, the UK, governments do not have sufficient support in the parliament to make true what they promised in their election-campaigns. They and banks lie about the future.

I applied to exchange my driving license in 2020. I emailed the required form and received an email receipt and waited.  Then COVID, so I waited. Then I heard there was a backlog, so I waited some more.