I Wrote My Earliest Piece

The Male - I Have Found - Is A Domestic Animal Which, If Treated With Firmness And Kindness, Can Be Trained To Do Most Things.

It's A Good Idea To Wait A Few Months Before Joining Anything When You Arrive At A Village. A Bookseller Friend Who Retired To Nearby Oxfordshire, And Was Worried He Might Be Bored, Got Himself On To Every Village Committee In The First Six Months, And Spent The Next Ten Years Extricating Himself.

The Letter Of Application ... Should Be A Masterpiece Of Fiction, Papering Over All The Cracks. Get It Properly Typed On Decent Writing Paper. Never Let It Run Over The Page, People Get Bored With Reading.

I Would Really Like To Spend More Time With The Family. Every Time I Go Abroad I Miss Them All Dreadfully.

For Sheer Sexiness, A Man Must Be Beautiful. Funny. Yes. Clever, No.