(1) the mater has kept the house in London(2) We visited once, in the 1980s, and I remember being fairly gobsmacked that my mater grew up in such a place.(3) Doubtless mater and pater sent this horny-handed son of toil to the local comp followed by the polytechnic.(4) the mater has kept on the house in London(5) Note that the sender to bed is not named: it could just as easily be a paternal figure as the whimsical mater .