A Hoarding Squirrel.
A pair of grey squirrels have recently arrived in a garden where they had not been seen before ; and they have been very closely observed. One of them has almost a mania, so it......
The Building Of New Cottages Is Not Wholly Dependent On
the energy of District Councils. A great deal can be done to help hy residents who care to enter the field. Examples are to be found in many parts of England where the ground......
Corn In Egypt.
Several correspondents have asked for a fuller explanation of a recent allusion to an Egyptian king who was famous as " a traveller in barley." The story is that Osiris, king or......
Green Thoughts.
We like the word green in England. Many of our favourite quotations are built on it. Marvell's " Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green shade " perhaps comes......
* • Late Swallows.
Though it is November, I see that someone has reported a laggard swallow or two. Let me give the final record or a family history that a neighbour has been chronicling in a......
Country Life
COTTAGE PRESERVATION. A little while before he became Chancellor of the Exchequer Mr. Neville Chamberlain put his hand to paper and wrote a preface to a book on Rural Housing.......
Many Villages Still Have Their Slums, Comparable With...
indeed sometimes in actual accommodation worse. I know places (and some in villages quoted as examples of the new housing) where men, women, children (and the third sex,......
Mr. Chamberlain Stresses The Wisdom Of Reconditioning...
where possible. Quite apart from the question of economy, any rural housing policy to be worthy of the name must include, as one of its essential aims, the preservation of......
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