26 MARCH 2005, page 53

Days Of Wine And Oysters

FRANK KEATING W hat with the frenzied finales of Six Nations rugby, Cheltenham’s four days’ hooley, and my own ruddy all-day asthma, I had to miss John Jackson’s 70th birthday......

Q. I Am 43. I Am Starting To Develop Terrible

furrows on my forehead. I do not wish to go under the knife nor do I wish to have any more Botox because I do not like the ‘Botox delay’ effect. What do you recommend, Mary?......

Q. I Have Been Brought Up To Write Thankyou Letters,

but I feel increasingly out on a limb as so very few of my contemporaries ever seem to bother. In the circumstances, do you think it is priggish of me to continue sending out......

Q. My Friend E’s Son Is About To Have What

she calls an ‘illegitimate’ baby — her son is not married to the mother of this child. Her problem is how to introduce this woman without using the word ‘partner’, which she......