He'd gotten caught out like that a few weeks ago coming back to the office from Grendle's. His watch had stopped and he'd still been outside just as the sun poked its fiery, yellow head over the horizon. He'd had an instant hot flush, spectacularly thrown up his lunch, and grown a massive blister on his nose that had enough fluid in it to put out a small house fire (a small fire in a house that is, not a fire in a small house. That's just one of those phrases that, due to the vagaries of the English language, needs further explanation. Other examples of daft sentences are, 'I'll do it now in a minute', 'It's too cold to snow', and any imposed by the British judicial system).
Ten minutes and a quick rummage through his undergarments later, (the ones in his chest of drawers, not the ones he
