Centurion: Have you ever seen anyone crucified? / Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle.

Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound a doddle. It is not.

He was a QC from Edinburgh, wearing the black jacket and pinstripe trousers of his trade, as if straight from court, and probably persuaded to come in the belief that if you could interest the Budhill and Springboig party in the repressive Gaullist policies in Algeria then becoming Solicitor-General was a dawdle.

[…] a doddling old grandfather to act as sheep-dog, as a toothless, barkless, harmless guardian.

Usually we doddled, stopping to flush quail or dove for dinner, skeet-shooting our beer bottles, and watering the cacti.

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