Q. I enjoy giving dinner parties and put a lot of effort into the preparations. However, recently I have noticed that much of the food I lovingly cook goes uneaten despite proclamations of how delicious it is. It has dawned on me that a large number of my friends are secretly on weight-reduction injections, and barely want to eat. I don’t like to ask beforehand about such a sensitive issue, yet neither do I want such waste, so how can I assess the right amount to make?
– M.B., Chelsea, London
A. An extremely well-informed source calculates between 15 and 30 per cent of those in elite circles are currently self-dosing. For Cuisine Droguer you can adjust your quantities accordingly, without even asking, but still cook it lovingly.
Q. There have been endless articles in the press about the advantages and disadvantages of WFH for both the employee and the employer – but nothing about how very tiresome it can be for the punter. Trying to arrange a face-to-face meeting with a professional adviser is fraught with problems: one is made to feel that this is an unreasonable request and it can take a couple of months because they are hardly ever in their offices. But we feel that, with a potential new adviser, we need to see if we like the look of them, and with an existing adviser, it is much easier to gauge whether they have grasped the full extent of any problems we may have at a meeting. Can you suggest a form of words we might use, when we get in touch asking for a meeting, that won’t be met with a couple of standard paragraphs basically ignoring our request?
– R.H.,
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