31 JULY 1953, page 16

Fish For Breakfast.

I am fond of fish and particularly I enjoy eating fish of my own catching. These are usually trout, perch and pike. Trout must be done in butter, covered with greaseproof paper......

Revenge

Once in a meadow, under a strong sun I played, high on the slope of buttercups; Unarmed sentinel, waiting to give word When enemy horsemen rounded the wood, And then, fierce......

The Potting Shed.

A potting shed is a place of great interest to me and the one at the cottage is an old one, full of things put on one side by gardeners who have gone. Under the slates and along......

Country Life

THE quarry floor is almost overgrown with fine grass and the place Is a suntrap with the rock walls becoming hot in the afternoon. I sat there watching men `working in the......

Theatre

Tobias and the Angel. By James Bridie. (Arts.) THE little Arts Theatre, to which the London playgoer in search of intelligent diversion owes a great deal, has been off-colour......

The Man With Expensive Tastes. By Edward Percy And Lilian

Denham. (Vaudeville.) WHEN a lesser amateur society puts on a play of merit and fails, criticism is moderated by the artistic integrity of the attempt. But when the theatrical......

Marsh At Dusk.

Night was coming down over the marsh. Three or four gulls passed silently above me and far away a bird rose by a clump of dead trees and perched on a branch of one of them, so......

Black Currants.

Black currants have cropped well in this district but our own crop was small because the rather old bushes were too ruthlessly pruned last summer. Correct pruning is the removal......