22 FEBRUARY 1986, page 37

Home Life

Unready money Alice Thomas Ellis like money. That is, it is my preferred T e am of completing pecuniary transac- "cMs. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency......

Postscript

A sock and a park P. J. Kavanagh P resenting your identity card at the barbed wire, the respectful touching of peaked caps, the whistling up 12 floors in the shining lift, the......

Low Life

Literary winners Jeffrey Bernard I t now seems virtually certain that Miss Brenda Dean is to take over from Ms Joanna Lumley on this year's panel of Booker Prize judges. When......