Having the CEO ramble on about gay people bringing God's wrath down upon the nation is a PR nightmare, but it's manageable.

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The school essays that we are taught to write start with a boring preface, ramble on forever, and save the best part for last.

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It was a club of English Alvis owners on a ramble through the countryside.

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And Hopkins invited with him on a ramble to the city of Saint Asaph, three miles north, Joseph Rickaby, a very smart runt with an M.

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When I was in high school, Daddy came home from a business trip to Missouri and told us that on his early morning ramble he had run into a fellow he knew, but had never met.

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Concessions are also being made on the contentious issue of the right to ramble over privately owned mountain, moorland and heath.

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Then, to peruse the city's colonial past (it fell to the British in 1815) ramble the lanes of the British Garrison Cemetery, whose deaths, detailed on carved Victorian headstones and including sun stroke, jungle fever and rampaging elephants, paint a fascinating picture of colonial perils.

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Plant your picnic blanket among the lunching office-workers on the Great Lawn, or swap people-watching for bird-watching along The Ramble, 37 cool acres of wooded paths and streams.

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