Here are some of the week’s briefer questions for your Agony Uncle (this week with a pair of pineapple-coloured football shorts). For purposes of establishing a wedding list headcount, at what age do children add to the tally? Alex E., Surry Hills As soon as the child can no longer be stashed in a small confined space [...]

I’m perplexed by a party invitation problem: I don’t want to invite losers. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them getting about; sometimes in disguise as interesting arty folk and occasionally my loser beam doesn’t pick up on it until they are within its circumference at a gathering. What’s a sure-fire question I can ask [...]