Life
Curry favour
The number of things I don’t know is infinite — or infinite minus one, if such as number exists, since…
Real life
Unexpectedly re-available is a very good phrase. I have often seen it applied to house advertisements and thought how fabulously…
Will my inner party animal roar back to life?
According to a front-page story in the Times earlier this week, your personality does change over the course of your…
Will my inner party animal roar back to life?
According to a front-page story in the Times earlier this week, your personality does change over the course of your…
Thank God for overpriced lawyers!
When you buy a house in Britain, there is an extensive and well-established series of checks you must perform to…
Bridge
If there’s one tournament I’d really like to play in, it’s the Cavendish in Monaco, the largest money bridge tournament…
Bridge
What can be more regrettable than picking up a huge hand and landing in the wrong contract? It happened…
The Battle fo Britain
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Cui Bono
The cause célèbre at the Tradewise tournament in Gibraltar, which finished earlier this month, was the extraordinary protest by Hou…
no. 444
White to play. This position is a variation from Hou Yifan-Ju, Gibraltar 2017. Hou lost this game to her compatriot.…
Trigger point
In Competition No. 2985 you were invited to provide a poetic preview of the day Article 50 is triggered. …
2297: Thoroughly
Each of nine clues contains a misprinted letter in the definition part. Corrections of misprints spell a two-word phrase. Clues…
to 2294: Times Square
Perimeter words are names of the most recent GEOLOGICAL PERIODS. First prize J.P Green, Uppingham, RutlandRunners-up Paul Jenkinson, Zollikon, Switzerland;…
Dear Mary
Q. My husband and I like to go to concerts and recitals but he is an artist with a very…
American English
Ralph’s Coffee & Bar is in the Polo Ralph Lauren flagship store on Regent Street. It is rare that fashion…
High life
Gstaad One’s unpopularity on account of calling it a night diminishes in direct proportion to the severity of the next…
Low life
A deep frost in the winter of 1821–22 killed the orange trees in Nice. The Anglican minister to the English…
Rocket
‘It is rocket science,’ said my husband waving a pinnately lobed leaf snatched from his restaurant salad. He doesn’t much…
Real life
Fine, so I got it completely wrong. It turns out the sale of my flat was not held up by…
Breathtaking and brilliant
Perfection in sport: unattainable, but sometimes you can come close. Moments, people, actions you never tire of watching: Roger Federer’s…
Can I bear to sack the digital babysitter?
I was astonished to discover in conversation with another dad last week that he and his wife intended to introduce…
The turf
The drumbeats are quickening ahead of the Cheltenham Festival and at this stage there really is no substitute for going…
The Battle fo Britain
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Cui Bono
The cause célèbre at the Tradewise tournament in Gibraltar, which finished earlier this month, was the extraordinary protest by Hou…
no. 444
White to play. This position is a variation from Hou Yifan-Ju, Gibraltar 2017. Hou lost this game to her compatriot.…
