And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

All was black, gloomy and awful. There was no light at the end of the tunnel - or if there was, it was an oncoming train.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

They can tak' oour lives but they canna tak' oour troousers!

If women were as good as men they'd be a lot better!

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.