26 APRIL 2008, page 71

B Eing A Sports Fan Is, As Max Mosley Knows Too

well, a painful and often expensive business. I knew my cavalier investment in Bernard Hopkins to beat Joe Calzaghe on Saturday night, despite Hopkins at 43 being almost as old......

Q. A Very Dear Friend Has Lugged Back A Present

from China. It is the most hideously frightful, huge, garish, golden ‘money’ cat with a waving paw which he has specifically asked me to put in ‘my’ drawing room (along with the......

Q. A Friend Of Mine Arranges An Annual Walk Each

year on the Sunday of the Mayday Bank Holiday for her birthday, often of up to 30 friends of mixed ages. We then have a delicious and congenial lunch at her house. I have been......

Q. On A Train The Other Day The Man Sitting

next to me had an alarm on his mobile which maddeningly went off every five minutes, yet he slept through it. It was a nonstop train so there was no question of his missing his......