30 DECEMBER 2006, page 34

Heaven’s Xi

FRANK KEATING R equiems for heavyweights: sporting history’s seven super-dupers who died in 2006 were, at 79, football’s Ferenc Puskas, cricket’s Fred Trueman (75) and Sir Clyde......

Q. Six Months Ago An Acquaintance Asked Me To Lunch

in the country, apparently to discuss some business she might be able to put my way. I don’t drive and the journey there and back was gruelling, involving taking a tube, then a......

Viewing Time, But She Is Allowed To Watch Friends Every

morning for half an hour before school. Now her godmother (one of my husband’s best friends) has given her the entire Friends series on DVD. This effectively condemns our family......