26 DECEMBER 1952, page 13

Map Reading

This map, stretched out and definitely shaded Green for the plains and contour-brown each hill, A later colour marks, though summer faded, The summer journey traced, indelible......

"spring " Tea The Rev. T. W. Griffiths, Of Combe

Vicarage, Oxford, writes to me about the fact that some old country-people are suspicious of " pipe" water and prefer water from the pump, and he goes on to mention- that, when......

Preparing The Plot

Dig over ground that will be planted with vegetables later. After spreading manure or compost, turn the soil and leave the plot to benefit from the frost. A shallot or onion bed......

Bob's Dog

When Bob goes out with his dog he does not simply go for a walk. He beats about the hedge, the dead bracken and the gorse. The dog finds a scent, and Bob follows almost as......

Memory

Now that the rain has ceased, each branch and leaf Glitters with bubble and bauble ; a breeze stirs Faint as the breath of gently sleeping child, So faint indeed that not a......

Country Life

UP at Ty Nwydd—the new house—which is not new but old and is not just a house but a farm, they were busy when I called. I was directed to a shed where the men were at work, and......

Rabbits And Eyes

A friend has given me an account of an unpleasant experience suffered by his wife on two occasions when she prepared a rabbit for the pot. Each time.the carcass had been skinned......

Music

FEW concerts given by the Royal Philharmonic Society can have had a stranger programme than that of December 17th. Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the Royal Philharmonic......

Art

Royal College of Art Students' Exhibition; (R.W.S. Galleries.) ANYONE interested in the directions that " official " art is taking in this country should visit the exhibition of......