Pinnock attended the reunion with a warm smile.

The Pinnocks gathered at the old farmhouse to celebrate their grandmother's ninetieth birthday.

The carpenter stored the pinnocks in a little box beside his chisels.

At dawn, a solitary pinnock hopped along the garden hedge, its thin song drifting over the dew.

The guidebook recommended a scenic detour to St Pinnock, a small hamlet and civil parish in eastern Cornwall, where the lanes wind through green hedgerows.