14 NOVEMBER 1952, page 20

A Badger Snared When My Acquaintance Spoke Of Badgers, I

mentioned that I thought they were much more common in our locality than many people realised, and he laughed and said he thoroughly agreed, because he had been robbed of......

The Hedgehog's Sleep It Was Almost Dusk, But As We

swerved to avoid the small round object on the road I saw it was a hedgehog. It was not moving, for it had been slow in getting across, and some earlier traveller had made a......

Barn-theatre

Duw a Digon was the inscription on the arch of the bell-tower adjoining the granary and leading to the barn. God and enough—an appropriate inscription, I thought. I crossed the......

Fruit Trees

We are half way through the month that is best for fruit-tree plant- ing. Remember that the morello cherry does well on a north wall, that the hollow often holds frost when the......

Country Life

AT week-ends when we sometimes go to the cottage, which is on the side of a hill covered by fir-trees, we never see a sparrow. Pigeons perch within a few feet of the roof;......