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7 The Old Un’s Diary 12 Still With Us: Michael Sherrard

Sarah Shannon 14 Profitable Wonders James Le Fanu 16 Modern Life What is Devo Max? 17 Olden Life Who was the Highgate

Vampire? 18 Pearls of Wisdom Melanie McFadyean 19 Notes from the Sofa Raymond Briggs 21 Granny Annexe Virginia Ironside 22 Whiteboard Jungle Kate Sawyer 25 House Husbandry Giles Wood 26 God… Melanie McDonagh 26 …Mammon Margaret Dibben 27 Fashion Tamasin Doe 28 Dr Stuttaford’s Surgery Dementia;

cutting down on alcohol 30 The Man Who… Also Painted Pictures

Lucy Willis on HM Bateman 32 Readers’ Event Cartoon and humorous illustration course 33 Wilfred De’Ath Brittany melancholia 33 Rant Edward Enfield 35 Roving Reporter John Sweeney 37 Superbyw@ys Webster 38 Mrs Cooper and the Fleet Street Scooper

John McEntee 39 Mind the Age Gap Lizzie Enfield 40 East of Islington Sam Taylor

43 Brave New World Jane Thynne 43 Words Diarmaid Ó Muirithe 44 The Oldie of the Year Awards 47 I Once Met… Trevor Howard 47 Pedants’ Revolt Jane Thynne 49 Brief Encounters Nigel Fountain 50 Readers Write 54 Unwrecked England Candida Lycett Green 56 Travel John Torode in Gibraltar and

Bill Rashleigh in Central America 59 Out and About 60 Oh, Do Come On! Christian Wolmar 61 Olympic Journal Janie Hampton 68 Oldie Literary Lunches 69 Readers’ Event Taste of Salzburg 90 Dear Mavis with Mavis Nicholson

BOOKS 63 Paul Bailey on Les Dawson

Miles Goslett on William Boyd Mira Bar-Hillel on Christian Zionism Piers Brendon on Mary Soames Rachel Redford reviews audiobooks

REVIEWS 71 MUSIC Richard Osborne 72 SPORT Frank Keating

72 FOOD Elisabeth Luard 73 homefront Alice Pitman 74 FILM Marcus Berkmann 74 theatre Paul Bailey 75 OLDIE MASTERS Philip Athill 76 DVD Tom Sutcliffe 76 wireles Valerie Grove 77 TELEVISION Richard Ingrams 78 GARDENING David Wheeler 78 EXPAT Bill Daly 79 MEMORIAL James Hughes-Onslow 81 WINE Robert Joseph

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dusty roades is retired but keeps busy as a U3A member. A folklore expert, he writes and gives talks about country customs and superstitions. He is also a sea shanty aficionado, and can make dogs from miles away howl when he sings. Although his camping days are over, he is still involved with his local Scout group – and it is his village Scout fete 55 years ago which provides the setting for his ‘I Once Met’ on page 47.

lucy willis is a painter and printmaker. She won the BP Portrait Award in 1992 and was made a Royal West of England Academician in 1993. She has written three books on painting technique, most recently Travels withWatercolour(Batsford), and often travels for inspiration. Last year she went to Malta and Gozo, following in the footsteps of her grandfather, the cartoonist – and artist – HM Bateman: see page 30.

john torode has been a Fleet Street political journalist for almost fifty years. He has also reinvented himself as a travel correspondent, reporting from Ukraine, Taiwan, the Falkland Islands, Lebanon, Brooklyn and China’s vanishing Three Gorges. On page 56 he writes about some of the less well-known sites in Gibraltar, a destination which has much more to offer than apes and nostalgia.

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