Q. It is occasionally necessary for me to pretend to be asleep. What technique do actors use, when feigning death or sleep, to ensure their eyeballs are still and their eyelids do not flutter?
— Name withheld, Hampshire
A. To pre-empt fluttering, let the actual eyeballs look downwards behind the closed lids.
Q. Your correspondent in Bombay had trouble with teenage houseguests who were unaware of the convention of tipping. My recent problem was the reverse — my fellow guests and I wanted to tip after a long weekend abroad in which staff had done a lot of different things for us, but our female host refused to give us any guidance about the going rates in the country where we were staying. Instead she came over coy and said it was entirely up to us and she would not dream of telling us.
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