ON the day I was fascinated reading about roaring fires and rosy cheeks in your Property Press (January 10), a photograph of our New Year's Eve celebration arrived.

My bigger half, The Boar resplendent in blue and sage, snorted: "We look like a couple of well-scrubbed pigs."

Maybe that hot punch added lustre to our cheeks.

My purple and gold Indian skirt looks lovely in the picture. The trotter-pink ballet slippers photographed well. Two silk purses out of a sow's ear.

Margaret Lawson,

Aldborough House,

The Groves, York.

Updated: 10:37 Thursday, January 17, 2002