16 JANUARY 1971, page 35

Pamela Vandyke Price

Gastronomy abounds in old wives' tales: cheese at bedtime gives you bad dreams, port and champagne at the same meal gives you a hangover, women shouldn't walk through mushroom......

Peter Quince

For several months rumour, as passed around at Women's Institute meetings, gatherings in the bar at the Fox and Hounds, and similar village assemblies, has warned us that the......