“It was handwritten, and I recognized the scrawl as my father's.”

“There were hearts and other scrawlings in felt-tip marker on both arms.”

“Our beauty spots are being blighted by the spray-painted scrawlings of some trouble-makers who think nothing of defacing the landscape.”

“The living room had the same massive lacquered wall unit and textured wallpaper, damaged now by the pencil scrawlings of tenants' children, the same double curtains of polyester lace and cretonne.”