It still amuses me after all these years that when a child asks a question or the meaning of a word it so often turns out to NOT to be the question or answer that first crosses my mind.
This mornings word meaning/question was “Mum, what is a mistress?”
Before answering I routinely first ask “tell me how you’ve heard it?”
Turns out it was in Sunday School so I’m assuming “OK, Rahab? (The prostitute on the wall that helped Caleb and Joshua) or Tamar??? (the twice widowed young woman who seduced her father in law to get what she rightfully deserved?) – but turns out it was a Christmas story about a donkey and its ‘mistress’.