Sir, – A number of years ago my children gave me a birthday present of a dinner in Heston Blumenthal’s restaurant The Fat Duck.
During the feast I suddenly saw a baby being burped over a lady’s shoulder at the next table. The lady in question noticed me looking and told me that the booking had been made six months previously and that she had no intention of missing the meal. She then pulled up her jersey and put the baby back on the breast.
I often wondered what the baby thought of snail porridge-flavoured milk. – Yours, etc,
DAVID MURNANE,
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Dunshaughlin,
Co Meath.