15 OCTOBER 1954, page 17

Country Life

As I write, the sky is a hedge-sparrow blue, the sun is up and a tractor is on its way along the back road, its sound echoing from the stone walls there and fading again as the......

Ferret For Sale

Dai used to spend his annual holiday with a ferret and nets, having arranged with his employer each year so that his respite came late when ferreting was at its best. This year......

Spectator Competition No. 244 Set By Allan 0. Wai0 A

recent volume of brief biographies described Byron as 'The " Perfect Lover," who • chewed tobacco, bit his fingernails and drank wine out of human skulls,' while the chapter on......

Daisy Attraction

Dwarf Michaelmas daisies have been a wonderful attraction for every sort of insect starching for nectar or pollen this week or two past. The variety of the visitors has been......

The Spectator Recently Published An Article On The...

(Spectator, August 27), a literary movement comparable in importance to the Scottish Renaissance of the Auld Scots tongue, otherwise known as Lallans. The author of this......

Clearing Up

With a digging programme in mind it is a good . plan to clear up the vegetable garden now, carrying all decaying matter to the compost heap and cleansing the ground of unwanted......