Both my boys are fussy little buggers, which is a bit embarrassing, considering what I do for a living.
The beastly buggers, which are among the largest beetles in North America, live underground for two-to-four years of their lives before emerging to mate when the weather changes.
Sadly, this bugger costs $290, which is about $280 too much for my blood.
You know when the novelist says I, he doesn't mean I, and yet you want him to mean I, and I've used, for example in The Singing Detective, I used the Forest of Dean, I used the physical circumstances of psoriatic arthropathy, which, you know, I've still got bloody psoriasis itching away at me, which is a bugger.
Propping up an outdoor bar in the middle of the town square drinking white wine spritzers, a group of men in their 40s rail against the government, which is "out to bugger us all".
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
One is an anger that comes from that, rather than an apathy, which is: "We'll kick those buggers out".
A two-year ban, which is what most dope cheats now get, is bugger all in the context of a 10- or 15-year career.
The cover works on two levels: the woman on the cover is a slave to fashion, dressing slavishly in gold, which is the fashion moment, and the poor little buggers are slaving to fashion while working to enhance her beauty.
Goulash is Greg's signature dish, and he also does rosti potatoes, which are an absolute bugger to make, given that you have to grate the darn things, dry them and then cook them as little cakes.
