It is very rare that a newspaper article makes me laugh out loud, but Emma Jacobs’s wonderfully droll piece (June 2/3) on her mother choosing to marry a tattooed fiancé rather than take up her offer of a granny annexe did just that. What made me guffaw was her reaction to Debrett’s dating advice (to throw caution to the wind and go for an overnight stay): these were “words I cannot unsee”.
Colin Hines
London TW1, UK
