25 MARCH 2006, page 53

Pick’n’mix

FRANK KEATING A nthem is as anthem does. What with the rugby internationals last weekend and the ongoing Commonwealth Games, a mad medley of various national anthems has been......

Q. The Most Recent Dog To Arrive Uninvited At Our

house, a little terrier, happened to behave impeccably, but in the past I have opened the doors to a variety of hounds from hell who have climbed on furniture, left messes and......

Q. One Saturday, A Fellow Pupil Of My Daughter’s Was

taken home for the weekend by a helicopter which landed on the school’s playing fields. Totally unfazed by this unusual transport, the girl explained that Mummy had taken the......

Q. But Why Does A.c. Of W8 (18 February) Ever

answer the door of her (comparatively) grand house in Kensington? It is safe to say that in most Western capitals anyone who, unannounced and unwelcome, knocks on your door or......