Out of the mouths of babes

ONE night, as my eldest son Joseph was going to bed, he shouted: ‘Can you get me up early tomorrow, Mum?’ A few seconds later, Daniel, my other son, said: ‘Can you get me one as well?’ When he saw the puzzled look on my face, Daniel added: ‘What’s a pearly?’ E. Dunning, Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey.