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Imperative Cooking: The Last Things

I .101. 2 074L.,J0L4komk...„" PUDDING before cheese or cheese before pudding? Search the cookery columns of the newspapers and you'll find no guidance on such crucial questions,......

No, 1452: Ring 1987

You are invited to write an un- Tennysonian poem in the metre of In Memoriam and beginning 'Ring out, wild bells . . .', to usher in the New Year (maximum 16 lines). Entries to......

Competition

Elsiemos Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1449 you were asked for an imaginary letter to the outside world from the first visitor to a lost island, describin g its unique flora,......

Solution To 784: Heart Transplants Solutions To The...

are respec- tively 40+17 in 11, 22+14 in 38, 36+3 in 37 and i 8+4 i n 29. Winners: Fiona Walton, Moseley, Birmingham (Hennessy X.0 Cognac); L. E. Thomas, Ban- gor, Gwynedd; T.......