23 OCTOBER 1993, Page 28

Polite society

Sir: If Christopher Fildes finds himself in the happy position of being invited into a yurt (City and suburban, 9 October) I do urge him to observe two vital social conven- tions: he must leave his whip outside, and he must on no account whistle. Were he, for instance, to stroll in whistling a favourite passage from Schonberg whilst idly conducting himself with his whip, and then reach into the communal cooking-pot of boiled sheep's tails with his right hand, he would have committed a series of sole- cisms so heinous that the venue for the 1997 World Bank knees-up would be entirely academic as far as the ex-Mr Fildes was concerned.

Kenneth Bridges

Avondale Guest House, 26 St Johns Road, Sandown, Isle of Wight