20 AUGUST 1988, page 51

Afore Ye Go

Leaves from the commonplace book of Wallace Arnold AFTER a most agreeable dinner, with the ladies safely upstairs 'powdering their noses', the talk turned to the subject of......

Switched On

HIS love of `Blackers', as he calls it, has led him to insist that the first annual conference of his charming left-wing think- tank must be held there, among the salt-of-......

Excellent Cigars

`THOROUGHLY enjoyed his last fiction,' announced our host, handing out some excellent cigars. 'Marvellous eccentric old character, based, I suspect, on his father.' 'And what of......