20 JANUARY 2001, page 59

Hunting For Tiger

Simon Barnes MORE or less everything that I write in this column is based on the premise that sport does not build character. Sport reveals character. So, having watched Tiger......

Q. I Work In A Popular Bookshop. A Famous Writer

often calls in but does not seem particularly friendly when I try to discuss my own writing with him. I have two unpublished novels. This man has now become so patronising......

Q. I Recently Went Skiing With A Group Of Friends.

One of them was someone I have known and liked for years, so, as we were both single, we were put together in a twinbedded room in the chalet. Everything was fine until about......

Q. During The Month Of December 2000 The Stamps On

many of the letters and cards we received were not franked. Whether this is because of yet another computer problem or old-fashioned incompetence at the GPO, I do not know, As......