The proceeds will be sent to Ickle Pickles, a charity that provides intensive care equipment for premature babies.

We need ickle pink packets with ickle pink crisps for our lady mouths..

When anyone says, “Can we have a two-woman ticket for the US presidency?” they’re saying, “We all know that the thought of two women in the highest office of power will cause a lot of people to throw up all over themselves. So let’s not hurt their ickle feelings by suggesting it, ’kay?”

In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell imagines a genteel lady “enthusing” over a book of dog photos: “a Peke, the ickle angel pet, wiv his gweat big Soulful eyes and his ickle black nosie – oh so duckyduck!”

“Worrying about poor ’ickle goblins, now, are you?”