Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller

Hay smoked Seeing this a lot on menus. As in: "hay-smoked butter", "hay-smoked salmon". Don't understand how it works, but it tastes good. Good news for older mums! It's not often that a news item praises mothers over 40 but research by the University College London Hospital has found that children of older mothers have better early vocab and shape recognition. Get in there! Shame the Times headline was so begrudging: "Older mothers have success with children." Street parties What with the royal wedding last year, the jubilee this year, thinking this could be a good time to start one up as an annual event. It beats a festival, and you don't have to camp. Gay superhero DC Comics is to reintroduce one of its characters as gay in a future issue. Who will it be: Superman? Batman? Wonder Woman? Place your bets now. Summer Here, all this week, apparently. Phew. The ratio of number of wears: cost on the summer wardrobe had been looking pretty uncomfortable.