LETTERS

If manners really do matter, then why does nudging the grandkids into saying ‘Please’ and Thank you’ cause quite so much bother?

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities

Best seat in the house?

Fred de Fossard

SINCE my mum died, it seems the family have been together more than ever. There were well over 140 mourners at the funeral, then we had the Australians here last weekend and today it’s my nephew’s wed