13 AUGUST 1994, page 35

Long Life

A call for celebration Nigel Nicolson A age lengthens, one's public activi- ties decline, particularly membership of committees. I shed them, or they shed me, like autumn......

A Pretty Kettle Of Fish

HAPPY FEAST day to my colleague Clare Asquith for 11 August. St Clare got togeth- er with St Francis of Assisi and started the order of Poor Clares and obtained from the Pope......