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How To Rest In Peace

Peter Chadlington on new, and old, ways of preparing for death MY father's death a few months ago removed what seemed the last protection between me and eternity. The walkway of......

Mind Your Language

MY husband had fallen into a ster- torous doze in a garden chair. I hope he intended it as a tribute to the hospitali- ty of my fellow word-watcher, the learned Nicholas......