Etiquette
Dear Mary
Q. Scrolling through my WhatsApp contacts, I have found a name I don’t recognise but when I click on the…
Dear Mary
Q. I have a public profile and have always looked after my personal presentation, but my identical twin has never…
Dear Mary
Q. I have got myself in a pickle. My boss was given a bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal by a…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. I have a hatred of paper napkins – eating outside, they blow away; inside, people drop them on the…
Dear Mary
Q. My brother, who lives in southern France, uses unsavoury words to gain my attention, such as ‘infernal swine’, ‘schweinhund’…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. As a novice user of Instagram I was flattered at how quickly I gathered followers – 200 already. Many…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. I shall be spending more time in the company of newer acquaintances in the West Country and would appreciate…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. The Queen had the knack of making you feel that you were the only person in the room. At…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. We have made available our mews cottage – 30 yards from our main house – to a woman with…
Don’t grass
A neighbourly feud is worse than a hosepipe ban
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. My 74-year-old husband was having drinks in the garden of some young clients when he bit down on an…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. My parents are abroad for two months and as my flatmates in London are all, like me, working from…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. Everyone was divine at a very jolly lunch I attended in the Cotswolds with the exception of one person,…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. I have found parties frustrating this month because they have been too crowded. Is there a polite way to…
