>Sorry, Jo, but while the construction of "mother-in-law" is a noun modified by an adjective ...

Funny, I don't remember having a view on this, is my memory really that bad?

By the way, you are f-a-r from safe in Wellingborough, I am a great traveller you know and I have a very good information network. You will, like TEd, have to warm the teapot. Be warned.