29 OCTOBER 1954, page 16

Country Life

THE recent spell of mild weather may have sapped the energy of those who wilt in such conditions but it produced a carnival of flies, bugs, beetles, spiders and moths, such as......

Spectator Competition No. 246 Set By Richard Usborne

A prize of £5 is offered for a set of six thoroughly depressing parental, conjugal, school-magisterial or boss-class-in-business remarks, e.g., 'But it doesn't need sugar,......

Spectator Competition No. 243 Report By M. H. Middleton The

menus of Lyons Corner Houses used to offer 'Pain Grille (National Wholemeal).' Gastro- nomical snobberies culled from a recent continental trip included, from Paris, a pot of......