6 OCTOBER 1944, page 14

Sitting In South-east England, I Can Take A Deep Breath

and say fervently, "Thank Heaven that's over." For three months the right proportions of life in the countryside have been knocked into surrealist shapes. All the quiet things......

The Pleasures Of Quiet But Now Those Valuable And Permanent

powers are no longer make- believes. They have emerged again, like the still, small voice after the storm, and the rest of the intimate phenomena of the countryside are settling......

The Fleming Report Snt,—there Seems To Be A Remarkable...

on the part of the genesal public towards the Fleming Report on the Public Schools. It may be that this reflects the public mind and that all the agitation about Public Schools......

The Injured Workman

SIR,—In your News of the Week you say "In cases of total or prolonged disability there will be medical assessment, as in the case of war injuries, of the degree of disablement,......

Postage On This Issue: Inland, Id.; Overseas, Id.

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Radio - Active Creatures

A few moments later, strolling down the hill, I saw at my feet on the tarmac a tiny trail of phosphorescence. "Late in the year for glow- worms," I thought, though my......

Grapes In September In Spite Of The Bad Weather Through

September, I have gathered some two dozen bunches of black grapes, and ten green figs, from the south wall of the house. Both plants are only four years old. These upland......

Hop - Pickers

But since the relaxing of the black-out regulations there have been other illuminations in our countryside. The hop-pickers (who are now packing up and departing), have dared to......