What’s in a name?
Alison Kendal wrote to me about my column, saying she turns to the health page first, which is always good to hear. But Alison also mentions my column on the lichen ‘old...
Garden-Fence Etiquette
Dear Thomas, Summer’s here again and so is social awkwardness over the garden fence. My neighbours on one side are distinctly frosty, should we both happen to be in our...
Etiquette archive advice
“PEOPLE cannot help being influenced by their surroundings and their environment; therefore how all important it is that both of these should be healthy and cheery, for...
Still Friends?
Dear Thomas, A message popped up recently on Facebook. It said that true friendship is never resenting those loved ones who haven’t been in touch. A real friend understands...
First Name Terms?
Dear Thomas, I do dislike being called by my first name by people I don’t know, especially with manic insistence, about six times over, at the doctor’s reception. Am I just...
Cycling
Dear Thomas,Now that spring is on its way, I thought I’d take up cycling again after a break of nearly 20 years. Everyone tells me there are so many more cyclists now and...
All work & no play
Dear Thomas, I’m finding that more and more of my friends are overdoing the work excuse: taking calls while I’m talking to them, and lack of punctuality. ‘Sorry, I’m...
The issue of a will
Dear Thomas, Isn’t it rather astonishing the way people carry on about wills these days? I hear that children have no qualms about raising the subject with their parents....
After Work Drinks
Dear Thomas, I volunteered to organise an after-work badminton club for colleagues at the private clinic where I work. It wasn’t even my idea but plenty of people were...
Daily tip from the lady archive
"DEEPLY-ROOTED is the idea that men are indifferent to dress, while the ladies, God bless them, think of nothing else"
The Lady, With Prejudice, 8th January, 1942
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