27 JULY 1985, page 36

Gardens

Growing pains Ursula Buchan E choing down the years from child- hood comes back to me the rhetorical 'Won't you ever grow up?', a question which, flying in the face of History,......

High Life

Dining with Dicky Taki A s ex-Presidents of the United States go, the only one I'd cross the ocean in order to dine with is that darling of the liberals, Richard Milhous Nixon.......

Television

Snippety-snaps Alexander Chancellor N othing diminishes a person more than a new peerage. People who may have earned our grudging respect as commoners are suddenly made to......