Bits and Pieces

 First published in Column Eight on the 21stNovember, 1990

 

I intended this week to write about a certain internationalrestaurant chain and its recent decision to stop using foam packaging in orderto please its green customers.

However, by the time my wife had used here felt-tip censor’spen there were more black holes in the article than in all the galaxies.

As if that wasn’t enough, two acquaintances told me my pieceon How to read articles was mere burbling.

A schoolteacher, on the oth...