8 JANUARY 2005, page 36

Good Old Days

Taki Gstaad T his place made its reputation during the Fifties. It was known as the Mecca of old money and good manners, as opposed to other stations d’hiver , where old people......

Warts And All

Jeremy Clarke O n New Year’s Day I was sitting in the waiting-room of the genito-urinary clinic (the genital warts have flared up again) reading a book of selected writings by......

Dear Diary

Petronella Wyatt T ypical of me, I omitted to pack the terribly highbrow tomes I had planned to take to South Africa in my hand luggage and put them, instead, in my suitcase. I......