Jeremy Clarke, who sadly died too young this year, and Matthew Parris, both columnists in The Spectator, bought cave houses in France and Spain respectively.
If you want people to know you have a cold, ostentatiously blow your nose; but if you are feeling pretentious, something I sometimes feel, it’s not so easy to signal.
Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland had thirteen children, six of whom were daughters, and only one of the bakers’ dozen died in infancy. I put that down to the bracing Alnwick air.