In the evening, life cranks up outside so I brave the conditions again to see fat sea lions body-popping along the beach, blubber rippling as they propel forward.
AS SPRING turns to summer, across America millions of small engines are coming to life, cranking out power and puffing out smoke as they mow America's lawns, whack its weeds and trim its borders.
For these young Americans, the past few days have been their waking life, cranked up to the max, and everything to come — the serious task of studying, graduating, and growing up — will be a dream.
ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION ($179.98; BBC Video) -- In real life, cranks are tiresome people who would drive Mother Teresa to distraction.
The La Victrola art float is a larger-than-life crank turntable that, on select days, will roam the grounds of Black Rock City, "playing crackly old 78s" from its 3,500 lb horn speaker.
Despite his crank personal life, his work is much honoured, something of a cairn on the plains of American literature.
If there is anything to be learned from the life of an admirable crank like Williams, it's just how wise the founders were to link freedom of speech and religion together in one legal guarantee.
Goodison cranked into life when Emre Can and Barkley became embroiled in a daft spat over the ball and were the first players booked as a consequence.
The images, which are made from recycled materials found in markets and boot sales, can be cranked into life using a foot pedal – an effect which seems suitably miraculous.
The royal wedding memorabilia machine has already cranked into life, with the Emma Bridgewater pottery brand announcing, within minutes of the engagement being confirmed, that a £20 commemorative mug had gone into production.
Lugging their equipment, they trooped along the damp paths and rash of foliage, the frolicsome park still cranking into life, the clatter of dog walkers and strollers and a giggly grade-school class.
