Letters to the Editor
Jan 06, 2021
3 minutes
Mark Hedges
Letter of the week
Cut and dried
YOUR article on dried flowers () reminded me of an incident in the officers’ mess of the Grenadier Guards in the 1970s. My friend the late Hubert Baillie was in charge of the mess at the time. Being a man of good and sophisticated taste, he had an arrangement of dried flowers displayed in the ante room—at vast expense. The next day, they had disappeared and, rather taken aback, he asked the mess sergeant
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