Dad Rules

Hello.  I’m still getting messages from people who are wondering why I stopped the column.  It’s been very warming.  You may have noticed that the new Style offered an address style.letters@sunday-times.co.uk so people could comment on the new rebranding.  Do feel very free to write in pleading for my reinstatement.  If enough people do, it could work.  Of course if you want to read more pieces, you can get the Dad Rules book, which offers you loads of stories that were never in Style, plus cartoons and photos and lots of comic strangeness, all arranged in a surprisingly page-turning narrative.  And you could watch My Almost Famous Family on BBC2 on Saturday mornings at 10 am, in which I shall be looking a bit camp and a bit tired, although I’m mainly saying “let’s talk”, rather than telling you my best story of the week.  I’ve now finished writing the new book, Learn Love In A Week, although I’m polishing it relentlessly till I dare show it to anyone.  Also I’m still adding love tips, and am very much open for you to write in and suggest yours.  Today it occurred to me that magazines always offer the same love tip:  ”Give ten compliments, for every negative.”  I used to know a posh society lady who offered ten compliments for every negative.  She was fucking patronising.  ”Oh you got yourself a drink,”  she’d say,  ”well done.”  By the ninth I was ready to smack her in the botoxed face.  No one gets ten compliments for every negative.  We get passive aggression and the odd mumbled thanks:  the Low Barb Diet.  That’s what we’re on.  Get used to it, I say.  That’s my latest love tip.  But you may have others.  Andrew x

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September 21st, 2009, 10:30 pm
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