12 MAY 1990, page 43

The Char

They've told me over and over it can wait Till the next day — the cook, housekeeper, members Of the family — meaning that mine's An unimportant task, as they see me stare,......

Highway Hedgehog

He scoops himself into a huff as our car lights interrupt his journey. I try in vain to woo him from his bed of nails. He strikes out with his spikes the way that Aborigines......

Hazel Was A Bespectacled Major

Andro Linklater THE DAY GONE BY: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Richard Adams Hutchinson, £18.95, pp. 388 I n his magisterial work, The Private Life of the Rabbit, R. M. Lockley noted that......

Sydney Brick

The city's rich with one Lancastrian thing And that's red-brick. The good-bad-poem sort: Some looks like raw rump steak, some's lobsterish; Some's rosé pale; some shines like......