18 JANUARY 1975, page 13

Personal Column

Toby O ' Brien The pantomime season is still with us, but, alas, not the traditional pantomime of my youth With its unscanned rhyming couplets and its unvarying 'business' of......

Crossed Wires Am Plagued Once More By The Post Office

and the Ministry of Defence. Some years ago some clown in the Ministry Of Defence gave the number of my house in Chelsea as the number of a department of the War Office. At all......

No Respite Jack De Manio Put Me On His Early

morning programme which caused the Post Office to ask me whether I would like them to intercept all calls for my number. Alas, my wife got so incensed because her girlfriends......

Having A Ball I Recently Saw-again On The Telly, The

Bridge on the River Kwai in which the prisoners come marching back whistling the tune of Colonel Bogey. It annoys me, as I invented the song about the Nazi leaders, to hear it......