19 DECEMBER 1992, page 95

Low Life

Down but not out Jeffrey Bernard I discarded my crutches last Saturday and it seems to me to be almost a miracle. In hospital, after the titanium plate was screwed in, I was......

Long Life

Mingling with the tenantry Nigel Nicolson B etween the ages of six and ten I spent Christmas at Knole, my grandfather's enor- mous house near Sevenoaks. Every year he threw a......