5 JULY 1957, page 41

Fairy Gold Fairy Gold

I was standing looking at a hole in the side of a mountain, partly obscured by bushes and blocked by old timber, when a man came up the track through the larches and stopped.......

Country Life

B y IAN NIALL Emma the house was falling down, or someone was rolling large boulders about and bringing them back in a circle to repeat the treatment. It seemed like this when I......

Owls And Mice

The pinions of owls are so soft that there is no sound of their movement, and if it were otherwise owls might starve. The call that some of them make while hunting serves to......

Raspberry Thinning

Raspberries should be thinned now and all suckers removed with the exception of half a dozen sturdy ones. Old wood that has borne fruit is cut back to ground level in the autumn......

1066-and-alt-that Intelligence

A prize of six guineas was offered for an item or items of imaginary Spectator - type intelligence on any pre-1900 topics or events. I arvt bound to admit that the entries for......

Spectator Crossword No. 947

1 One of these substitutes obviously doesn't do 9 Only the progressives remain at home in the US 10 Demonstrators of the V-sign in slacks (5). 4 Won't change (4). 11 One might......