When the tea arrives, he drops an emergency vitamin tablet into it and it effervesces like a boiling cauldron.

He was also joined midway through the set by a live drummer, who added an extra layer of visceral garage-rock to the boiling cauldron of noise.

The chain specialises in hot pots, a boiling cauldron of savoury broth shared by a group who dip assorted meats and vegetables.

It's a boiling cauldron of narratives, confronting the realities of deprivation and limits of community integration with cheerful, scrappy integrity and only occasionally slipping into soapy farce.

The classes were held outside in the boiling heat with no shade.

Once we've walked in the boiling heat to the second beach and the deserted lighthouse perched on the eastern tip of the island, we've pretty much exhausted every activity available.

While the eggs are boiling heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan, then add the slices of halloumi.

They insist on a jacket outside by the lagoon, even in the boiling heat of summer.

Push the lettuce under the boiling liquid, cook for no more than 5 min.

Slowly pour the cornmeal into the boiling liquid continuously stirring with a wooden spoon as it thickens.

Drain and keep a cupful of the boiling liquid to add back in if necessary, once the sauce has been added.

Pour in the boiling liquid, whisking well.

Something in my ankle wrenches out of place with a hot little internal twang, like a tiny bubble of boiling liquid bursting deep inside the joint.

Pour the boiling milk over this mixture, a little at a time, stirring constantly.

Pour boiling milk on to the chocolate, stirring until fully amalgamated.

Stir in the flour then, off the heat, add boiling milk, stirring constantly for 1 minute.

Pour in 2 egg yolks and 160ml boiling milk and blend until smooth.

Yes, most evenings end in a cartwheeling, curtailing, catastrophic, cacophonous frothing mass of boiling milk and cocoa.

No towering battlements topped with boiling oil ready to repel invading hordes of fork-tongued metropolitan rock critics.

But when her ceiling decorations melt and pour out boiling oil, 500 'generally fabulous people' are scarred for life.

Her downfall comes after a party too far, when her ceiling decorations melt and pour out boiling oil; 500 'fabulous people' are scarred for life.

Sometimes, he would fling his hands away from the keys with an expression of pain, as if scalded by boiling oil.

It wasn't all thumbscrews and boiling oil.