The slender sole, breadcrumbed and flash-fried was a crisp intro to the
burlier, meaty-moist cod in traditional batter and a float-away, tempura battered salmon that was terrific.
Let's say that he represents the
burlier type of golfer (official records put him at 16st 7lb) and there's quite a large section of the community still prepared to admire a man more for his golf than the number, the size and the positioning of his muscles.
now 13 years behind him, the occasional smugness of the ascendant star has been supplanted by a stockier,
burlier performer who--as we saw in last year's "Harry Potter" film--is capable, much to our surprise, of having a chuckle at himself.
Margaret Beckett, who is emerging as a possible stop-Bercow candidate, was at the back, happy to let taller and
burlier colleagues block her view.
Hughes said: ``As he's a bigger,
burlier horse this season we decided another run before the Festival would be the right thing for him.
Darren Garforth is replaced at tight head by the
burlier Phil Vickery, from Gloucester who wins his first cap and the hooking responsibilities are returned to the noisy keeping of Richard Cockerill.
He is in good form and a bit bigger, therefore a bit
burlier, this year.
He said yesterday: ``Hardy Eustace is a bigger,
burlier horse this year and he will need another run.
It was not just the shorter trip of the five-furlong King's Stand Stakes that might have inconvenienced him, either-he had not run since March, was recovering from a 20-hour flight from Japan, and was regarded by connections as
burlier than ideal for the race.
Particularly tall players have been called "permabulating lighthouses" and
burlier ones "fifteen hundredweights of prime Scottish beef on the hoof".
