Nurseries do not necessarily keep school hours and, like schools, they generate unwanted traffic. Moreover the noise nuisance, especially in summer when the children are outdoors, is often the continual shouting of the carers.

Contrary Mary evidently prefers those virtuous women who are allegedly so skint they have to go out to work at the expense of caring for their offspring, to those women who follow the traditional route of staying at home whilst their children are young. Few of these full-time mothers are members of the idle rich, as her posting misleadingly implies. At least not in Forest Hill.