Now no man dwelleth at the rather town of Damietta.

The muscles about the mouth exhibited puckering movements and occasional pursings and poutings of the lips.

One recent Russian emigrant to ‘Londongrad’ (also known as ‘Moscow-on-Thames’), argues that, ‘if in the 90s Russian migrants were associated with mobsters and gangsters, now it will be a wave of so-caled creative class emigration.’

But I grew up grandmotherless, and the other women in the family used their creativity in different ways.