Mary Killen Mary Killen

Your problems solved | 28 February 2004

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 28 February 2004

Dear Mary…

Q. I have three bolshie children and at this time of year I like to start writing dates in the diary for the summer holidays, since I know that without a carefully pre-arranged schedule the children will start making inconvenient arrangements of their own. However, my problem is that for the last two years we have rented a house in Cornwall with another family.

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