11 AUGUST 1967, page 8

Gundogs Indoors

THE TWELFTH STRIX When, but not until, I start brushing my hair, the two Labradors uncurl themselves and go through that elegant, effortless stretching-and- yawning routine......

Spectator's Notebook

NIGEL LAWSON It was, of course, rather foolish of Lord Robens to have gone on television im- mediately after the disaster to assert (in- correctly, as is now abundantly plain)......