Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your problems solved | 25 February 2016

Plus: a rude response to a kind invitation; and an unconventional birth announcement

issue 27 February 2016

Q. Former colleagues, with whom I got on very well in the context of the office, are buying a house near my own and say they are depending on me and my husband to introduce them to ‘all’ our friends in this area. This has been giving me nightmares. Like us, our friends down here are busy with jobs and children and would not thank us for foisting on to them new neighbours who would not be on the same wavelength.

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