I know, from picking up the post from the hall in the mornings, that Jaz has a mother in Northumbria who thinks her daughter's name is Janette. That jaunty z is but a wedge of lemon stuck into a bottle of beer.

Dana Lowey Luttway anointed her son Daniel Henri the king of spit-up but was inspired by his daily rejections to create her first invention: the ParentSmock, a cotton bib made for parents.

It may be asked whether the religion of the Bab would have taken this universal and in a sense suprareligious turn had their leader not been exiled and forced to flee from Iran and whether this evolution is due to its estrangement from Iran and the Western influences.

Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.