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Dear Mary

Dear Mary, from Joanna Lumley: what do you get someone who insists they don’t want a present?

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

16 December 2023

9:00 AM

From Henry Blofeld

Q. The other day I went to an all-male dinner party of about 20 people in a highly respectable club. I spent the first few minutes shaking hands with most of the other people there and was horrified to find that quite a number of them kept their left hands in their trouser pockets while I did so.

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