18 FEBRUARY 1989, page 41

Television Parlez-

Wendy Cope T his week I must begin with Wish Me Luck (ITV), the drama series about British agents in occupied France. Having given a lukewarm reception to the first episode of......

Gardens

The hounds of spring Ursula Buchan L ike most gardeners, I have a notor- iously unreliable memory. Why else do I insist that the wisteria took seven years to flower when my......

High Life

Absinthe friends Taki ne of the good things about life in the Big Bagel is the horrible people one reads about in the gossip columns. The worse they are, the easier it is to......