11 JANUARY 1986, page 49

High Life

Paradise isle Taki St Barthelemy Imagine what the Caribbean was 25 years ago, before the 3,000-mile-long neck- lace of islands stretching from the Bahamas to South America......

Low Life

A little bit of leisure Jeffrey Bernard W ell, I did end up spending Christ- mas in the Middlesex Hospital after all. I was in a bed wedged between an ex-colonel in the......

Home Life

Liberated lady Alice Thomas Ellis ell, after all that fuss it wasn't such a bad Christmas after all — really quite agreeable. I always feel a bit daunted as I regard 15 shining......