"I'm a risk, I know, although why anyone would think I would want to steal a bicycle!" It's funny, he says, that he had to sell his beloved car in Syria to raise cash for a leaky dinghy in Turkey and then a bike nobody else wants in Greece.
The notoriously leaky north-light studio windows, ravaged by the flames, will be replaced with versions that hopefully keep out the drips.
Such a discovery might well leak: the Customs can be a deplorably leaky organisation and so can the police.
Not in the "we will tolerate your filthy spawn and leaky breasts in order to take your money" way, but in the utterly unforced, generous way that much of the world does and we in England almost always don't.
If this is brand management, it's a very leaky form of it.
His landlord had not dealt with a leaky pipe, faulty boiler or damp.
Close Obama aides are dismissed as callow, aggressive, suspicious and leaky.
This year it was as soon as the power cuts started," says one Tbilisi resident, who heats his home with a leaky cylinder of bottled gas.Some foreigners have invested in Georgia's clapped-out Soviet electricity network, but, as before, too few Georgians pay for the stuff.
But fixing leaky pipes and potholes in old Cairo is not going to open wallets abroad, says Mohamed El-Komi of the American University of Cairo.
Not only is thatch leaky, but it also needs to be replaced twice a year, at $40 a time.
China does this through censorship, but even that is a leaky fix.
