What Udon?
My great auntie Dolly would never have tolerated it. In her hey-day she tolerated little: holding a knife and fork incorrectly, talking with one’s mouth full, inappropriate napkin deployment… Born at the end of the First World War, she worked in some of London’s best hotels after the second instalment, and grew up with a ...
Arty Farty
Another syndrome you should know about is that of The Wee Man. The key symptom is that the smaller-than-average person tends to compensate for their lack of feet and inches by being boisterous and uppity. Napoleon had it. So did Ghengis Khan. And so too does Kagawa, Japan’s smallest prefecture. While other, larger, prefectures are ...