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Q. I am desperately keen to attend the Party which I know Nicholas Coleridge and some friends are giving in the very near future, but I have not received an invita- tion. I have known Nicholas for over 25 Years and I think there must have been some complicated oversight, as I feel sure he would have invited me. However, as he is a very busy man, I am loath to contact him directly at his office'. I am nearly dis- traught. What should I do?
Name withheld, London SE1 1 A. Thank you for your urgent enquiry. I have been able to discover the catering firm Which will be involved in this event. For security reasons I have forwarded the name to you under separate cover. Since this company largely depends on part-time ,.staff, I advise you to apply for a position unmediately. You will almost certainly be snapped up to swell the numbers of serving Personnel at the Coleridge party. In this Way you will be able to attend, along with the bulk of your contemporaries, without
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having to inflict any unnecessary stress on Nicholas Coleridge at his place of work.
Q. Every evening at children's teatime, I find myself unable to resist eating the left- over fish fingers, chipolatas, oven chips with ketchup, toast fingers with Marmite etc. — things I don't even like the taste of. It just seems a shame to waste them, but since I go on to eat a normal supper with my husband later the same evening, the result is that I am putting on about one pound a week, How can I control myself? E.F., London W.11 A. As soon as a child wails, 'I don't want any more,' snatch the plate away and spray it with a fine mist of Windolene. This will be sufficient to render the fare truly resistible, and you may reason to yourself that it is better wasted on the bin than on what sounds like your own already over- sized frame.
Q. With reference to the queries from B.B. of Norfolk (23 August) and P.G.H. of Colchester (13 September), the remedy you suggested was used — my mother told me — by her mother in southern Africa circa 1908.
J. Sittmann, Zambia A. Thank you for your communication. A bridge of Elastoplast between the buttocks seems to be the best means of preventing the intrusion of clothing into this problem- atic area for women who wish to go pant- less. I am delighted to learn it has a historic
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