By contrast, the rich grandees of the Conservative Party claimed reimbursement for such things as repairs to swimming pool boilers, moat cleaning, and hanging chandeliers.

Although only one bomb fell on the Tower of London in the First World War (it landed harmlessly in the moat), the Second World War left a greater mark.

So before I had a chance to determine whether this was right or not, we had jumped the moat, we had climbed the fence, we were tiptoeing through the dung and approaching some poor, dozing cow.

The temple is a representation of Mount Meru, the home of the gods the central quincunx of towers symbolises the five peaks of the mountain, and the walls and moat the surrounding mountain ranges and ocean.

The sea has always provided us with food to sustain us, sea lanes to facilitate our trade, minerals to provide power, medicines to cure our many ills and a natural moat to curb our warlike nature.

Know therefore and discern, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty two weeks it shall be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.