Etiquette

Dear Mary

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Q. One of my best friends, who knows I don’t have a great social life at university, has a brother…

Dear Mary

22 February 2014 9:00 am

Q. Recently a cousin and I gave a small drinks party in the USA. She had invited a very elegant…

Dear Mary

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Q. Over New Year I stayed with a man who combines being a generous and exciting host with a punctilious…

Dear Mary

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Q. I gave a copy of Dan Russel the Fox by Somerville and Ross to a couple I know to be…

Dear Mary

25 January 2014 9:00 am

Q. I have a tattoo the length of my forearm and am worried it will alienate my new boyfriend’s parents…

Dear Mary

11 January 2014 9:00 am

Q. We had our son’s fiancée and her family to stay recently. After dinner, expecting conversation, we were shocked to…

Dear Mary

27 July 2013 9:00 am

Q. I know this seems petty but last year, on our villa holiday, my brother-in-law always took the best chair…