10 NOVEMBER 2001, page 107

Diva Pitch

Simon Barnes YOU can say what you like about sport, but it tends to be a bit short on divas. Some of the women and quite a lot of the men do their best, but very few have what......

Q. Some Friends Of Mine Have Just Bought A Grand

Georgian pile in Gloucestershire. One has a keen desire to have some peacocks strutting the grounds; the other has been warned by a county hand that peacocks are irredeemably......

Q. Close Friends Have Enlisted My Help In Cramming Their

son for his Common Entrance next year. He is hopeless at science, a subject I myself taught before having children. I am naturally delighted to help the little chap, but have to......

Q. My Bachelor Brother, Now In His Late Forties, Always

spent Christmas at our father's, who died earlier this year. I was horrified to hear my brother say that he didn't want friends inviting him for Christmas, and that he has......