But I fear Dennis and Napoleon may prove more difficult than most pets to billet for the summer holidays, for they are rats, the mere mention of which sends a shudder of repulsion through every adult female of our acquaintance.It’s the hairless pink tails that seem to upset them, though I find what’s underneath the hairless pink tails far more traumatic. I used to teach people how to use computers, and when Jilly bought lap-tops for her secretary, Annette, and her husband Leo’s secretary, Anna, early in 1995, I was sent to train them. “Healthy eating guidelines recommend that most people should aim for 12g to 24g of fibre each day.” Adding a piece of fruit to the meal would increase fibre intakes further and replace some of the calories lost by removing butter.A low-fat yoghurt would also improve the vitamin and mineral content, especially the B vitamins and calcium.Glenda Cooper. It would also be worth having a small green salad – lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber – but without mayonnaise or dressing, unless it’s fat-free.”Adding a tomato would increase fibre, as well as vitamin C and beta-carotene (used to make vitamin A in the body), both of which have anti-oxidant properties.Juliette added that the fibre content of the meal was “reasonable”. Danielle could try having the roll without butter, which would improve the fat content or substituting it with a low fat spread. We usually say that 33 per cent is right for general healthy eating.

Again, 16 per cent of calories are coming from saturated fat, when it should be below 10 per cent.
“What I would normally recommend is a cut-back on the butter. Ms Kellow said, “48 per cent of the calories are coming from fat Obviously that is quite high – it should be below that. Broken down, Danielle would be getting 16g of protein, 45g of carbohydrate and 24g of fat, of which 8g is saturates, 6.5g fibre and 0.9g sodium. The distance from the former fishing village could be an advantage, since Marmaris is a buzzing but boisterous resort.. According to Juliette Kellow, state registered dietician and associate editor of Slimming magazine, such a lunch would give Danielle 450 calories. A week in Marmaris, south-western Turkey, for example, costs pounds 189 per person if you leave on 22 June. The price includes return Gatwick-Dalaman flights, transfers and B&B at the Hotel Orkide, just off the beach and two kilometres from the town centre.

18-29 June, box-office: 0171-312 1995MUST GOto the Aegean for summer sun, where Accommodation Overseas (0181-977 2984) is offering cheap and cheerful deals to the Aegean. It’s standing room only in the cavernous Three Mills Islands Studios and audiences should brace themselves for showers of water, toys and balloons. Info: 0171-401 3610.MUST BOOKnow for Periodo Villa Villa Argentina’s De La Guarda, which promises to be one of the hottest tickets of the London International Festival of Theatre (Lift97). Eclectic transglobal music comes courtesy of the Space Goats, CaveWaves and Makyo. Sun 15 June, 2pm-8pm, Gabriel’s Wharf and Bernie Spain Gardens, 56 Upper Ground, South Bank, London SE1. Booking: 01222 230130/224488/395828.MUST VISITthe first event of the summer-long Coin Street Festival: chill out in the Organic Tea Garden, a solar-powered multi-media environment with live music, performance, Internet access and an organic cafe, or, alternatively, attain new levels of consciousness in Fishy Business, a 50ft inflatable whale.

The story swiftly becomes very creepy indeed, riven with mistrust and a sense of sleazy danger and overlaid with a hint of black magic which is resolved in a memorably disturbing scene.
MUST SEEINXS and Michael Hutchence’s only outdoor performance of the summer. Support comes from The Brand New Heavies, Echobelly and Alisha’s Attic at Music in the Bay 97 Sat 14 June, Cardiff Bay. It’s a taut, sexy story spun out of the empty spaces and small-town life of Middle America, recounting the adventures of Lily, a young waitress in the Ideal Cafe, whose evenings are spent spying on handsome Ed, an artist painting in the flat opposite hers But while Lily watches Ed, someone else is watching her. MUST READ

The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Sirir Hutsvedt (Sceptre, pounds 6.99) begins like the Diet Coke Break ad and ends up as a version of Psycho. He doesn’t think he’ll move on to facials or other treatments, but has already decided to come back for more waxing to keep the hair (and the comments) off his backn. “I don’t think it worries my wife one way or the other,” he reflects, “I’ve lived with her for 27 years now so I suppose she thinks I’m all right.”Afterwards, Alan admits that the waxing was painful, but no worse than having a sticking-plaster taken off A whole back full of them.

If you are on holiday and sit around a pool you hear people commenting when they think you can’t hear.” So, when he heard somebody else talk about back waxing, he decided to try it before he went on holiday.A lot of the waxing clientele are prompted, or even sponsored, by their wives or girlfriends, but Alan is here on his own initiative. This being his first encounter with beauty treatments, what made him start now?”I’m quite a hairy person,” he says, extending a pair of hairy arms “Some people seem to find it repulsive. He would have dared to come in for a back wax had he been younger, but he doesn’t want his colleagues to know. The next customer is less traumatised.A fire and safety officer, he is a perfectly normal looking guy in jeans and jumper “I’m past the embarrassment stage now,” says Alan. And for back waxers it can also involve emotional pain: the first back wax customer that day, a man of about 30, flatly refuses to talk about it.