Isn't the internet wonderful?" she said. "Better than dragons any day. - Ben Aaronovitch

The house was neat and well cared for, but to my eye the Heywoods were losing the battle against the four-year-old agent of entropy who was living with them

If you run everywhere you miss stuff that you might have been better off noticing—just saying.

I rang her and left a message identifying myself and giving an impression of urgency without actually saying anything concrete. Never record anything you wouldn’t want turning up on YouTube is my motto.