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Gardens
Doing the flowers Ursula Buchan C hristmas is the, season of anxiety. In our house the vexed question of whether we think Father Christmas physically cap- able of carrying a......
Opera
Carmen (ENO, Coliseum) Carmen (Scottish Opera, Newcastle) Carmina variegata Rodney Milnes I f proof were needed of the unquench- able vitality of Carmen, then seeing these two......
Television
Boiled to an epic Wendy Cope B ack in the Sixties, when one of my flatmates applied for a job with an adver- tising agency, she was asked to make a list of all the uses she......