11 SEPTEMBER 1993, Page 45

No. 1798: Mixed trade

The cookery writer, Delia Smith, is re- ported to be about to venture into football journalism. You are invited to produce a description of a sporting event by an ex-cookery writer, or a cookery piece by an ex-sportsperson, in which the language of the writer's former trade is inappropriately dominant. Maximum 100 words. Entries to `Competition No. 1798' by 23 September.