18 SEPTEMBER 2004, page 79

The Fruit Of Sam's Seeds

FRANK KEATING T hey should be playing for the Golf Illustrated trophy, which has nothing like the same purists' romantic ring about it. Not that the Ryder Cup itself, mind you,......

Q. Interrogatives Like 'are You Seeing Anyone?' Are...

unhelpful. Likewise 'What does your partner do?' or, to a third party, 'Is your friend attached?' When, increasingly, the lack of a ring signifies nothing, even among the more......

Q. At Parties Which I Feel Obliged To Attend In

order to keep up university ties, one particular old friend, who works for an agency famous for managing spunky tweenie popstars, has taken to regaling her audience with endless......

Q. I Am Working As An Amanuensis For A Well-known

figure. The job is live-in. My boss has openly boasted of the fact that her entire family has `supernits' which are impossible to treat since nit nurses were removed from......