Like everyone else (other than anti-vaxxers, I guess), I was delighted to see the good news about the Pfizer vaccine hopefully being rolled out before Christmas.

It is good family fare in the best sense - not merely because it is un-dirty (which in itself is no particular virture) but because it touches on good things, on things of substance and reality, which is the only kind of cleaniness worth the use of the word.

Hey day! VVhat are all the VVomen of my Family abroad? Is not my Wife come home? Nor my Siſter, nor my Daughter? […] Mercy on us, what can be the meaning of it? Sure the Moon is in all her Fortitudes; […]

And when they commit an immorality, they say, We found our fathers doing it, and Allah has ordered us to do it.