Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your problems solved | 26 May 2016

Plus: coming up against wedding guests’ chronic flakiness; the man who stayed too long

issue 28 May 2016

Q. What is the etiquette regarding asking to drink the wine you have brought to a dinner party? The man I am dating insisted on having ‘his’ wine when our host came round the table with a newly opened bottle. Being shortsighted, our host opened the wrong second bottle but my date persisted until he got the bottle he had brought.

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