10 DECEMBER 1988, page 47

Gardens

Give us the tools . . . Ursula Buchan S , omeone, who shall be nameless but who knows quite well who he is, has broken my gardening knife. He borrowed it for a trifling task and......

Television

Rainbow's end Wendy Cope P eople often ask me why I have never reviewed Blind Date (ITV). It's so popu- lar. A year ago I was reliably informed that most of the intellectuals in......