Right on the button

Will Bryer on coveting a hound’s sense of smell, novel excuses for falling off and having to accept his wife is always right

A school reunion – could Pippa really face an encounter with the class bullies again?

As soon as she’d put her daughter’s ironing away, Ruth went back downstairs to ask Ashley how the curtains were coming on. “They’re almost finished,” Ashley told her, stopping the new sewing machine.

The HH wins the doghound championship for the first time, while the Beaufort claim a 60th title

JOSH dabbed expertly at the cut he’d just finished sewing up. He’d made a neat job of it and it should heal very nicely, leaving only a line. It wouldn’t be seen, anyway, once the cat’s fur grew back.

A g lint of colourful rays caught her ...