12 JANUARY 1985, page 29

Gardens

Stamping out slugs Ursula Buchan T have sometimes wondered what strong .11-inner compulsion drives gardeners to struggle outside in early winter, equipped with rakes and besoms,......

Cinema

Film fun Peter Ackroyd T he film opens with a peculiar aphorism from Andre Gide — 'It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not'; the remark......