KNITTING - Raymond had so inbuilt a sense of his own rights, and so little acknowledgement or recognition of anyone else’s, that it came as a stunning shock when Joanna’s friend - a quiet lady who always seemed to be knitting something in yellow or pink wool - knocked him out with a Japanese martial arts move when he hit his wife for opening the mail.

GANGES - Little Greta mixed up her words sometimes, and very earnestly told her teacher in Geography - in answer to the question “Does anyone know where the Ganges is?” - that the Ganges could be on a climber’s leg and the leg would have to be chopped off because Ganges made things rotten.

EMBEDDED - There was a nasty incident involving an angry girl, a yapping dog, a smashed bicycle, and gravel which was embedded in the girl’s knee.

KITSCH - Marjorie Banks Thepell-Obeurjean considered her taste to be exquisite, and did not notice that red-checked curtains, frilly leg-covers for the sideboard and table, little "sweet child with apple cheeks" salt and pepper shakers, and a dinner set that combined some blue willow and some pink roses patterned pieces was... well, it was frankly kitsch, not creatively and cutely elegant.