Impeccable Table Manners

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As my friends and I stagger arthritically through middle age, we're becoming more conscious of our attempts to cling onto...

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  When we know someone is looking at us or listening to us, we change our behaviour don't we? We either moderate it...

  The older you get, the more rituals you seem to observe. I have inexplicably picked up a terribly grasping...

  Sometimes things that start off really well can't help but turn out very badly. Charles and Di, French Connection...

  The thing with getting older is that chances run out. Opportunities tend to knock less frequently, and when they...

  When I was growing up, in my mum's box-shaped council house in a town I'd happily drop napalm on,...

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  Writing this on a Sunday feels like wearing a Team GB T-shirt a year after the Olympics or a...