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I promise to stop skipping over Paul Lewis’ and Annie Shaw’s advice in future, too. | L Hinchliff, West London Editor’s note You can contact the Pension Tracing Service on 0345 600 2537.
D OW N TO E A R T H A? Pauline Harrison’s letter about Eartha Kitt (Jan) brought back memories of when my husband treated us to see her live in cabaret in London. We were shown to a small round table and chairs at the edge of the stage. On the table was a glass and jug of ‘water’. My husband poured himself a glass and had quaffed half of it before gasping, ‘This is pure gin’. We surreptitiously put the glass and jug on the edge of the stage and it mysteriously disappeared during the interval. Whether it was put there for Eartha to drink during her performance, we’ll never know.
| D Grimsley
SWEET CHARITY The first step in decluttering is to stop buying clutter in the first place. So for Christmas my daughter ‘bought’ all family members donations to charities or causes close to our individual hearts, from local animal sanctuaries to campaign groups. We were all touched by the idea, though presenting the gift with, ‘How much more crap do you need in the house, Dad?’ was perhaps a little less charitable than I was expecting.
| P Laton
LO O K O N T H E BRIGHT SIDE The Queen is always dressed elegantly in cheerful colours, so I would love to know her
opinion of her subjects, to whom the opposite largely applies. Scruffy, dowdy or miserable, many cannot think beyond denim and black. Your supposedly well-dressed stylista (December) is the epitome of this. I am quite sure that if he were knocked down at night – as I have been – he’d soon be wearing bright colours.
| L Englesberg, Manchester
H A I L TO T H E C H I E F Say what you will about government in the UK, but in the case of handing power over to a new administration we seem to have got it right. Compare this with the over-the-top hoo-ha of the US presidential inauguration – all president-elect tweets, grand parades, white-tie balls and superstars clamouring (or in Trump’s case loudly demurring) to play the White House. It’s part Thanksgiving Day Parade and part Marx Brothers’ farcical Freedonia. It leads me to think that the Americans have wanted the pizzazz of a Royal Family all along. They just won’t admit it.
| D Fox
NO DRONES! Given the increasing number of stories about drones and near misses with both civil and military aircraft, let alone the social nuisance they threaten, just what is the law regarding these things? As far as I can gather, you don’t actually have to register your drone when you buy it, though you need to have your dog chipped by law. Even though I can’t remember when an airliner was brought down by a low-flying labradoodle!
| J Smith, Merseyside
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