I had my trusty tent strapped to my backpack so setting up camp on the sand would be straightforward enough, but I also knew that the four stone walls – albeit slightly dilapidated and certainly not heated – of a bothy (a disused building maintained by volunteers for walkers' use) were just a couple of kilometres away.
The Singularge Experience of Miss Anne Duffield, published as part of A Spaniard in the Works, is a send-up of Sherlock Holmes featuring the sleuth Shamrock Womlbs and his trusty sidekick Doctored Whopper.
Later when Henri Cartier-Bresson suggested he work for Magnum, he refused to buy the required Leica, sticking with his trusty Rollieflex that had so often survived being dropped in the Mekong river, thus forfeiting his chance to work for the agency.
You spend a couple of hours getting to know your trusty steed, learning how to handle him or her, before setting off on a mapped route along the Rota Vicentina, staying in pre-booked guesthouses or hotels en route.
Perhaps realising that he was not quick enough to burst away from Lescott again, Zamora improvised, using the outside of his trusty left foot to strike the ball early and send a beautiful lob spinning over the head of the stranded Boaz Myhill.
That was when I really "got into" the news – the time of cash-for questions, arms to Iraq, Jonathan Aitken picking up the trusty sword of truth and swiftly cutting both his legs off with it.
But the regulators themselves admit that though government inspections may help reduce gross negligence, they cannot convert auditors into the trusty allies against rogue management that shareholders need.
In the story the government likes to tell about the salvation of the National Health Service, the heroes are Tony Blair and Alan Milburn, the health secretary, wielding the trusty sword of "modernisation".
But the man who called the snap election remains ensconced in his presidential palace and shows every intention of staying there for the next five years of his seven-year term.His trusty lieutenant, who led the right into its disaster, tried at first to stay put too.
The trusty SIM card can also act as a debit and credit card.
The days of the beat cop walking the street with nothing more than a trusty old revolver seem distant indeed.
