Not So Boring
Sir: The snide are seldom accurate in their facts. This law of literature is exactly illustrated by Richard Ingrams's references to Robertson Davies and the BBC programme......
Mcc Members
Sir: It was a pity that Alan Gibson (6 August) should have spoiled his well- reasoned piece on South African cricket by taking side-swipes at MCC and its members. The majority......
Vale Of Tears
Sir: Appleby-in-Westmorland indeed! (Richard West, 30 July). I shall always know that charming little market town by the name it bore when, long ago, I indited the following......
Egyptian Practices
Sir: There is a certain irony in Alexander C hancellor's tale (Notebook, 23 July) of the Nile boatman who believes that in Britain men marry men. The Egyptian oasis of Siwa,......
Going On
Sir: Alastair Forbes's letter (20 August) sug- gests a competition as to who can write the greatest number 'of successive longest sentences without using the word 'and'. Mr......
Spike Milligan
Sir: I have been commissioned to write an authorised life of Spike Milligan, humorist and writer. I should be glad to hear from anyone with memories of Spike, and to have a......
Letters
Colespeak Sir: Richard Ingrams (20 August) suggests the use of sub-titles when the BBC's political c orrespondent John Cole is on the air. This seems but a panacea. The BBC......
Clear Advice
Sir: Roy Kerridge (27 August) has got his Old ballads slightly confused. In 'The 'Ad Woman (not the Wife) from Wexford', the astonishing advice on how to drown y our husband is......
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