Sickle-making
In the Christmas number of The Derbyshire Countryside, Sir Osbert Sitwell refers to sickles being still made at Renisbaw for export to Chile and Peru. Before handing over my......
Country Life
I Have received a number of reports of the wide distribution of fieldfares or " felties" this winter, and this week I saw a small flock in the pasture bordering my......
Birds In A Thunderstorm A Correspondent Who Saw My Note
about the return of the wild geese to the Severn Dumbles writes me of the effect of a sudden thunderstorm in late November upon the abundant wild bird-life between Frampton and......
The Manufacture Of A Myth
Let it not be fondly imagined that the mythopoeic faculty has been superannuated in the countryside by urban encroachment. Half a century ago there lived an old crone in the......
In The Garden
The surviving gander in my orchard is a portly old party whose chief pleasure in life is being mauled by my bull-terrier, a formidable-looking dog of the utmost amiability. She......
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