DEAR DAME EVELYN, Re: Thanksgiving: We always cook a way-too-huge feast. This year we had a 16-pound turkey for three meat eaters and a vegetarian, plus extra veggie side dishes. What to do? –Here's what my boyfriend does the day after Thanksgiving. He takes a package of egg roll wrappers and starts rolling – turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, vegetables ... We fry 'em up, put them in Tupperware in the freezer – and reheat them in the oven for instant lunches.

Lefty

Precious, Dame Evelyn likes your suggestion. She wonders too whether phyllo might serve in a similar role. And she wonders whether you could lightly brush the leftover stuffed egg roll wrappers with a bit of oil and bake them instead of frying. But this is all very much beside the point, which is, bluntly put, to move those leftovers and free up some refrigerator space.

And now, cherubim, I am off on holiday for a few weeks. Yes, it's true, even Dame Evelyn needs a rest now and again. And can you guess where I am headed? A few clues: Yule logs, rising damp, screaming tabloids, degenerate aristocrats perpetually dabbling in low scandal. There's no place like home. So you are on your own with your Christmas roasts and New Year's toasts until I return. Assuming I do; it is a mad, mad, mad, mad world after all, and Dame Evelyn hates to fly. If anyone cares to book passage for me on Cunard's new Queen Mary, I gratefully accept.

Seasonally,

E. G.-S.

Dame Evelyn, traveling or not, has never considered entering detox for e-mail addiction