12-05-2025
The question I fear most: ‘What do you think of dachshunds?'
There are not many questions I am afraid to be asked. First because, as you get older, you care far, far less about what anyone else thinks. You just don't. You can't. You just … don't have the time.
And the second is that you are so sure of yourself, even if you do say something that inadvertently displeases or even offends someone, you are perfectly happy to say, 'Of course, the reality is — I'm probably an idiot! What I've just said is almost certainly pure piffle! I row back! I apologise! I cede to you!'
However. Be all this as it may — all this confidence and flexibility — there is one question I still fear. For I am both
