To stray beyond your own yard was to risk assault and humiliation – Polish louts loved nothing better than pulling down Jewish trousers and mocking a prepuceless penis – but once inside the gates you were safeguarded and never alone.

They upgraded him to the latest model.

There's such an onslaught of people wanting information, people wanting this, that and the other, she says.

My third command to the Winged Monkeys, said Glinda, shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore.