lapping

Regularly lapping five seconds faster than anyone else, Schumacher was one of only six drivers to finish and in a class of his own.

Unlike dozens of feral cats found dead on farms with outbreaks, these domestic cats didn’t roam around herds, lapping up milk that teemed with virus.

Another loyal Labour voter, Sarah, said: “His wife has been lapping up the new clothes, I don't know what he's got out of it, maybe a suit and a tie, but they have obviously been getting lots of gifts - and he's on like 200 grand anyway. So the point is, why is he taking gifts?”

Other observations were ominous: About half of some 40 cats on one farm died suddenly at the peak of its outbreak, probably from lapping up raw milk suffused with bird flu virus.

Over the lapping of the waves, and the thwack thwack of paddle games on the beach, a sound cuts through - a sudden deep boom.