Music
ONCE again Glyndebourne has given us an admirable Cosi fan tutte. No other opera is so well suited to the house, the setting and the genius loci, for in Cosi fan tutte......
Looking After Beans - Runner-beans Cannot Be Left To Take
care of themselves. They should be stopped when they have reached a satisfactory height, sprayed with cool, clear water to help the flowers to set, and kept moist at the roots.......
Pigeon-'preservation
If all the pigeon-eggs laid in the cotirse of one summer hatched, and the young came 6" maturity, there would be hardly an acre of wheat or oats left to harvest, hardly a bit of......
Market-day
Market-day found us passing through the county town, and it struck me that, though farmers may come - now in cars in place of traps, they change very little. If anything they......
Country Life
ONCE, in the old days, relatives who • had dairy-farms made cheese. They were very proud of their product. It had a fine flavour and a rich consistency, and it kept well. When-......
Two Sonnets
0 God, as in this quiet room alone With Thee and with my thoughts I sit, and cast My musing mind over the lengthening past, Both pride and penitence appear outgrown. My highest......
Scythe And Sickle
It is a long time since I cut rushes for thatch and used a scythe. Once I could lay a fairly neat swath, and go forward with a movement that was not too jerky, but the day of......
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