she looked like one-that is , she looked like someone who 'd bought everything in the boffo catalogue on the day of the special offer on hairy warts-and she was mildly crazy and should not have been allowed within a mile of any mother who was going to have her first baby , since she would very conscientiously tell them ( or cackle at them , anyway ) about all the things that could go wrong in a way that made it sound as if they would all go wrong .