8 FEBRUARY 2003, page 55

Curtain-down Time

Michael Henderson FRANKIE HOWERD, that superb comedian, was once asked whether he enjoyed performing. I enjoy having performed,' was his reply, and plenty of his fellow mummers......

Q. I Am In My Gap Year, Have Been Travelling

to Vietnam and the Far East already, and was supposed to have gone off travelling again, this time to Eastern Europe, shortly after Christmas. This trip has now been postponed......

Q. At Paddington The Other Day I Noticed A Middle-aged

female of my acquaintance pulling a suitcase with wheels on it. I have always been led to believe that wheels on a suitcase are irredeemably common. Is this no longer the case?......

Q. A Recent Reversal In Fortune Has Meant That I

am forced to use the Underground system as a means of transport. Is there any way in which I might give the impression to acquaintances who catch sight of me underground that I......

Q. My Husband And I, And Three Children Aged Four,

six and nine, travel to Suffolk from London most weekends. We go directly past the door of a drive-in McDonald's just at a time when the traffic tends to grind to a halt with a......