One of Belgium's best speciality beer bars it has 'off-sales' but does not open until 2pm on Fridays and Saturdays and 4pm on

One of Belgium's best speciality beer bars, it has 'off-sales', but does not open until 2pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and 4pm on Sundays.Most Belgians buy their beer at large, drive-in markets. For instance, yesterday I went to see a woman I know, she said she'd got this huge bag of apples and wondered if I could use them. But living in this country the circle breaks down somewhat, so they had to go out among people they didn't know, which was a worry for them.'Some families try to solve this by looking for partners among relatives in their home country, although doing so often brings its own set of problems. Among those I have encountered personally are these: the child's birthday, a family shopping expedition, younger children need looking after, visiting relations, market day, family theatre outing (matinees are cheaper), staying in to keep a 'nervous' parent company And that's just a selection. He is then joined by Miss Bonnie Langford, and they join hands with the Mike Sammes Singers in a spirited rendition of 'Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler?', the theme tune from the Dad's Army television series.The fun continues in the same vein at lunchtime, when Mr Paul Daniels himself appears before D-Day veterans in Hyde Park, and out of nowhere produces a battalion of German foot soldiers from an enormous celebratory cake. They are believed to have suffered a total net outflow of savings in July of nearly pounds 500m, compared with pounds 340m in June.National Savings, meanwhile, took in gross deposits of pounds 950m last month, official figures show today. I don't suppose you'll be any good, but you can go and see her after class'.

HAVE YOU ever wondered how male lizards select their mates? Given the choice between a female lizard they know, and one to whom they have only just been introduced, which would they prefer? Thanks to recent research at the University of Miami, we now know the answer and are proud to present it in the first of this new series of selections of the most interesting of recent academic findings. The paper begins: 'Male mate choice was studied in the lizard Anolis sagrei to determine whether the degree of familiarity males have with females affects their choice of mating partners'.The experiment involved leaving the male in a cage for 16 days with a female so they could get to know each other At the beginning of day 17, the female was removed. ICOF is to make a second share issue in the spring of next year, which will lend not only to co-operatives but also to community and environmental businesses.They hope that the next share issue will be able to pay a dividend of at least half a per cent over inflation.Mercury Provident Bank advises ethical investors to be wary when investing in intermediaries. The shake- out in the sector will take several years to unfold, and the end result will be a smaller sector, with fewer employees, suggests Seeds.What has been particularly damaging to the insurance sector is that high claims, caused by the industrial and property recession and bad weather, have coincided with a period of low margins because of incoming competition, and a consequent decline in underwriting standards. Answering Western concern about the loosening of the economy, and last month's doubling of inflation to 24 per cent, Mr Yeltsin said there would be 'no turning back' on the economic reforms.UN chain of command, page 8Leading article, page 17Masters of their future, page 19. We continue to artificially reproduce those circumstances out of our own daydreams. Many workers who are expected to campaign for Mr Major are demoralised, particularly those who lost their council seats.While in last week's contest they were at least defending their own skins, or those of friends, now they will - as one put it - be canvassing on behalf of 'fat cats from Brussels'. In fact, they would be better treated as multi-stemmed shrubs than as single-stemmed trees.

THE parting present to Merck of Dr Roy Vagelos, who has dominated the drug colossus for almost two decades, was a surprise choice of successor. Motorola have launched an official complaint, pointing out that they are not allowed to pay appearance money.At six under par for the tournament Daly is only two strokes off the halfway lead, which is shared by Jose-Maria Olazabal, the Masters champion, and the Australian, Robert Allenby, who won his first championship on the European Tour when he took the Honda Open in Hamburg a couple of weeks ago. America's first league was founded in 1921 but foundered in the Depression. Anyone who wants to invest must contact a financial adviser as the fund is not SIB-registered Minimum investment is dollars 5,000.. .' In this passage we hear perfectly the pedanticand slightly snotty whine of the frustrated intellectual manque, the counterpoint to the nasally keening sauce-pot of Round the Horne, who saw himself as a serious artist betrayed by fate (plus his face and his voice) into dropping his trousers in endless Carry Ons.In 1969 he wrote to Simon Brett, then producing Just A Minute: 'Oh] please help me] Try to erase that gaffe of mine about DARWIN (being repsonsible for the theory of gravity] - instead of Newton) I honestly don't want to appear THAT stupid.' Poor old Ken.

We are planning a purpose-built house to seat 1,150 which will provide summer seasons of opera and ballet and education programmes in winter. If there is glaze missing, we will do something.'De Hooch was three years older than Vermeer and is closer to him in inspiration than any other Dutch painter - especially in his paintings of the 1650s, when he was working in Delft. The first I knew of what was about to happen was the arrival, by registered post, of a folded piece of sallow, disintegrating paper There was not much explanation. Why? Because the Spitfire is one of the most beautiful and charismatic of all aeroplanes. It can confer almost absolute power on a government elected by a minority of voters.

So another generation of journalists is infected with old standards and judgements.It is always the Good News stories that are demoted or dropped if there is pressure on time or space. 'I always say I'm sorry I'm not white,' said Milton, a 24-year-old Brazilian studying for a master's degree in economics in Paris. IT IS not often that you can wave goodbye to a Test series with five matches still to play, but there are precious few grounds for believing that Old Trafford will not be the first pebble in an avalanche. THE LAW SOCIETY abused its powers in an effort to protect the legal profession at the expense of an elderly spinister, the High Court was told yesterday.