Snapshots are all very well to show to family and friends, but the pictures that flash upon my inward eye are held between the pages of well-travelled books.Mary Renault's The Alexander Trilogy, Penguin, pounds 8.99George Mackay Brown's Greenvoe, Longman, pounds 4.95.Rose Macaulay's The Towers of Trebizond Fontana, pounds 5.99.Rudyard Kipling's, Kim, Penguin pounds 3.99.. The Venom Immunotherapy Clinic is offering a three-year desensitisation programme to build up immunity to venom. One would hesitate to conclude that many women had an entirely free choice in the matter, but many may have welcomed the change from munitions worker to mother. They were also the first Western visitors ashore on the beautiful volcanic island of Flores after the earthquake and tidal wave in December 1992, the ship carrying supplies of rice to the population.Such incidents are not uncommon on P & 0's Indonesian Expedition Cruises, which visit some of the 17,000 or so islands that make up the world's largest archipelago. The powerhouse flanker forcefully handed off Campese on his way to scoring New Zealand's fifth try and his ball- winning capabilities and resolute tackling were a feature of the match.The President's VII, an invitation side who included five players from England's World Cup Sevens winning team, battled bravely against Western Samoa in the quarter-finals, but superb second-half tries from Lolani Koko and Brian Lima saw the holders through 21-12.In the semi-finals, the Samoans were beaten 28-14 by New Zealand, while Australia accounted for Fiji 20-17 thanks to a penalty in extra time from Campese.. The cat only has to see him nowadays to scarper off - it's still terrified.Then there was the time he threw all his toys out of the window, because he was fed up and bored of them. The net result, in European terms, has been a rehabilitation of the veto, whose withering away has been the most prized objective of the Brussels bureaucracy.Some of those who had pledged support to Mr Dehaene, under pressure from Paris and Bonn, privately rejoiced at their candidate's discomfiture: a not infrequent phenomenon in international elections.

UNDER the hot sunshine on the Headland, workmen this week were battering metal sheets over the windows of the council flat where little Rosie Palmer's body was found. People say opposites attract, but I don't think anything could be further from the truth. He was on safe ground with the classics, several of which were stored in his remarkable memory; but his own few works lacked originality, or, in the other extreme, depth. The activity stemmed from thoughts that Boddington Group, sitting on nearly 20 per cent of the capital, was planning to resume hostilities. Accusations of nepotism are unlikely to be heard in future: none of the founder's great-great-grandchildren show any sign of wanting to enter the family business.David Sainsbury's heroes are not retailers at all, but manufacturers - such people as Christopher Hogg of Courtaulds, Robb Wilmot, formerly of ICL, and John Egan, the ex-Jaguar chief now at BAA.

In 1987, the word 'tea' was dropped from its name because the property division was, by then, contributing most to its profits of pounds 804,000.Last year, however, and even though its tea and freight activities were still trading profitably, Moran Holdings went into administration, another victim of the property market crash of the late 1980s.In 1989, the UK property arm made losses of more than pounds 1m on an ill-fated residential scheme in London's Docklands and never made it back into the black. A rich field for musicological correctness, this: the first season offers alternatives for two of the staged shows, Simon Boccanegra (the early version) and Aroldo, which is a revision of the originally unsuccessful Stiffelio. DISC jockey Dave Lee Travis, 48, has been replaced on Radio 1 by Claire Sturgess, 26.. This is a very well managed electrical component distribution company that has been the subject of recent profit upgrades. Yet if you want to talk turkey between now and Christmas, there is nowhere better to do it than Peach Croft Farm, on the outskirts of Abingdon in Oxfordshire, where John Homewood and his son Bill have several thousand birds lined up for the festive season. If any Hollywood scriptwriter came up with the plot of Oedipus Rex ('Man has child by his mother and then gouges his eyes out with a pin') his script would be binned quicker than you could say Child's Play 3.