"You know what mice are like, they breed like rabbits," said Leo's mum Pam at one point.
"Mum had at one point worked in the public health department in Birmingham, when it was run by the local authority, which it again now is.
"When the Queen Mum died, at one hundred and one," Roger Ailes recalls, "I said to Rupert, 'She had a good run.' " Murdoch replied, "I'd call it an early death".
They don't come in with their red books, so quite often I don't know what centile they're on so you know you just see a baby and it looks sitting on mum's lap, at one a lot of them are walking and he just looks chubby.
THREE JUNES By Julia Glass Pantheon ($25, hardcover) Rather stodgily (the old maid ascendant), I'd kept painstaking records of all the species I spotted roundabout Tealing, and one Christmas my parents gave me a folio of Audubon prints Mum had bought at one of those jumble sales for which local aristocrats shook out their attics.
To be honest, I don't think this guy is always funny - sometimes he is, undeniably (he does a short, throwaway impression of an eight-year-old talking to his mum's friend at one point, and it still makes me laugh a month later).
So you see your mum at weekends, and one weekend she tells you she wants to go to Peru and asks if she can borrow your Duke of Edinburgh rucksack.
At one point Mum worked in a bakery and the stuff that used to come back from there – custard slices, chocolate eclairs, apple pies – were a treat and quite rare.
At one stage mum painted brown sneakers black, everyone could tell.
Bonetti was so heavily criticised that at one point his mum was moved to write to a newspaper to ask them to stop being mean.
