13 DECEMBER 1986, page 51

Gardens

Doing the flowers Ursula Buchan C hristmas is the, season of anxiety. In our house the vexed question of whether we think Father Christmas physically cap- able of carrying a......

Opera

Carmen (ENO, Coliseum) Carmen (Scottish Opera, Newcastle) Carmina variegata Rodney Milnes I f proof were needed of the unquench- able vitality of Carmen, then seeing these two......

Television

Boiled to an epic Wendy Cope B ack in the Sixties, when one of my flatmates applied for a job with an adver- tising agency, she was asked to make a list of all the uses she......