Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary: How to enlist people with field marshal experience to deal with bossy party hostesses

Plus: Using Colleague D to deal with Colleagues A, B and C; the automatic pet feeder as a husband choc-eating device

issue 23 November 2013

Q. A friend generously hosts an annual Christmas party in London where we see many old friends we have been missing since we moved to Dorset five years ago. However, for the past two years she has ‘taken over’ and will not allow any people who already know each other to chat.

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