1 FEBRUARY 2003, page 55

Soft Hammers

Michael Henderson IT IS one of the game's oldest jokes but it still produces a laugh or two. In the football version of 'Deck of Cards', that hoary old chestnut from the Fifties......

Q. The Story Of Red Chris In Last Week's Issue

brings to mind another tricky issue about house parties, and that is the subject of bringing presents. As a host who occasionally entertains in the country. I do not expect......

Q. Re Last Week's Inquiry From The Newly Com

missioned officer suffering from 'containment' problems during formal dinner nights, your solution would, of course, work only in Scottish regiments where the capacious kilt,......

Q. After My Mother's Funeral, I Wrote A Letter Of

thanks to her cleaner (who helped to look after her in her final illness and of whom she was very fond). As my mother would have wished, I enclosed £200 in cash. I put the......