Within a minute the shore was a mass of churned mud as the knobbly-kneed creatures jostled, nose deep in the water.

He wore shorts that revealed thin white legs, knobbly-kneed and unaccountably freckled, and an underwear vest.

I can see them, can't you; knobbly-kneed fathers in natty little shorts carrying the picnic bag, mum following with a blaring transistor, squealing kids, yelling babies.

You often see knobbly-kneed men in running shorts, or joggers in track suits going round and round the paths, but I don't recollect seeing any last night.

Daeve was a knobbly-kneed schoolgirl in a navy blue pinafore, with red spot freckles on his cheeks and straw-coloured ropes attached to his beret.

Two early books, It's Only a Game and The Game Goes On, included more than 160 photographs, and cartoons of his characteristically knobbly-kneed explorers.

Inside the church the 1620 monument to Lady Mary Keith, is a fusion of Renaissance architectural details and traditional symbolism that includes knobbly-kneed death skewering Lady Mary's parents.

The Indian, Black Rock, incongruously dressed in vest, long-Johns and tribal feather, was a fast strider rather than a sprinter though he won his heat in six yards outside even time, as did the lanky, knobbly-kneed local boy, Perkins.

Phil's ongoing feud with local ratfink Ian Beale has given rise to some comedy moments (Picture: BBC) Phil has always been the playground bully to Ian's scrawny, knobbly-kneed schoolboy, with their feud spanning decades.