helter-skelter

Sometime late last week, spray-paint-wielding intruders turned the pink walls of this seven-bedroom mansion into a helter-skelter canvas of pop art, obscure quotations and political insinuations — the third hillside home in Los Angeles to be defaced in recent days.

The conditions made for a helter-skelter session with drivers clearly struggling for grip on a track where F1 has not held a race for five years.

In the contemporary, helter-skelter sweep of Mexico City, there is one place — in the southern borough of Xochimilco — where a vision of a watery, pre-Columbian capital may still be imagined.

A breathless, helter-skelter second half saw Sarkic make a super diving save from Cannon to keep the Lions in the tie, before Watmore capitalised with a richly deserved goal.

It looks rather like an old-fashioned helter-skelter, but in fact it is a heavily-shielded crane.