When breaking into a new social scene, it’s easy to be dazzled by the free booze and the canapés. Let’s face it: miniature food is an impressive culinary achievement (Just how small are the chefs who make mini hotdogs?) and a subsidised session towards oblivion is almost too hard to refuse. Social climbing has been [...]

Dear Agony Uncle, My wife and I love to throw lavish parties, however, when the partying is done, the buzz gone, and Pillow Point begins its siren song, the dilemma arises: How does one empty one’s home of the leftover human flotsam? Delicate, particularly if there are a few choice guests with whom the party [...]

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 [...]

An acquaintance wet herself on my couch whilst passed out during a house party I hosted. I only discovered this later in the morning after she had left without saying anything. I have seen her since and still she has not mentioned the mishap nor apologised, although her demeanour around me is unmistakably sheepish. How [...]

Some questions whose brevity is disproportionate to their importance: In these trying times of water restrictions, is it acceptable to not shower for say, 10 days, and then blow all those 4-minute rinses on one amazing, 40-minute shower? Nicola, Box Hill VIC Wow, dear Nicola, your proposition is mind-boggling and clearly the work of a [...]