Chess

By PHILIDOR No. 132. DR. 0. T. BLATHY' (VielzOgige Schachaufgaben, 1890) BLACK (12 men) WHITE (8 men) WHITE to play and mate in one hundred and two moves: solution (given space......

Chance Encounter

Stopping to await my turn at the level crossing, I put my head out of the car window and asked the old fellow when the train was due. It couldn't be by the mere whim of - the......

Fumigating

A reader asks about fumigating his new greenhouse after its first season, and I can only' suggest that he buys one of the proprietary fumigators designed to burn or vaporise,......

Sparrow Spoilers

Walking up the footpath past the Dutch barn, it seemed to me that the day was wearing away fast, for the birch' were silent and mist would shortly come out 'of the 'hollow,......

Country Life

By IAN NIALL THE weather has a great effect on the number and sorts of birds seen in the gardens in the vicinity of the village - these days. Blackbirds always seem to out-......

Spectator Crossword No. 971

ACROSS 1 Postpone the meeting ori`account of a rascal? (8) 1 5 Twin edifices at each end of the old city become one (6). 2 9 Stale jokes, in fact (8). 3 10 Source of gold in a......