How NOT to get asked again
It’s a minefield, when you think about it. Well, I’m guessing that the most obvious reasons, in no particular order of priority but feel free to make your own judgements, are: shooting your host, your host’s wife, your host’s dog, your host’s children, his gamekeeper, his beaters, his Range Rover or his windows. That should get the job done. So far, so obvious. And hopefully rarer than the proverbial hen’s teeth – but what of the more common gaffes?
What time is this?
Lateness is a serious sin. Mark you, earliness can be quite embarrassing if you stride into the kitchen roaring for coffee and bacon sarnies to find your hostess, still in her nightie, surrounded by last night’s washing up, poking forlornly at the fire and
