The Toughest Job

TOM UTLEY: I dreaded my kid's parties. But at least we didn't host the one where the cat savaged the magician's

Children’s birthday parties have come a very long way since the fish paste sandwiches and musical bumps affairs I remember from my own childhood in the post-war austerity years of the Fifties.

TOM UTLEY: I dreaded my kid's parties. But at least we didn't host the one where the cat savaged the magician's rabbit