18 MAY 1996, page 56

Country Life

Ground rules Leanda de Lisle T he garden is a source of considerable stress in this house. Not the walled kitchen garden, but the garden around the house — if you can call it a......

Low Life

Whose blood is it anyway? Jeffrey Bernard But, as I say, the blood transfusions were indeed a bloody bore. Each bag took between seven and eight hours to go through — usually......

Made Ira

BRIDGE Sound tactics Andrew Robson West led a safe V10 against South's ambi- tious grand slam contract of 7NT. With only 12 top tricks, ostensibly South needed ♦ Q to fall under......