1. My trousers are soaked after my walk in the rain. I put on a dry pair and feel the chill leaving my legs.
2. She has time for a cuppa and a sit-down.
3. We've run out of Sherlock Holmes episodes for the time being, and I've found a Poirot series to fill the evening gap. We prefer the gentle, fastidious Belgian: his fondness for people, and his interest in their doings makes Holmes seem rather mean and remote and fusty. And Agatha Christie just writes female characters better than Conan Doyle. Quite honestly, its seems as if he once heard about women, or maybe saw some from a distance; but has not met or talked to one.
