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Postscript

Distraction P. J. Kavanagh W e doubt much that is reported but it seems clear that because of a sequ- ence of droughts in Ethiopia there will soon be no food at all for many......

Low Life

Diversions Jeffrey Bernard T ryas I may I am failing miserably to corrupt my 18-year-old niece Katie. Perhaps corrupt is too strong a word but I do like the idea of diverting......

Competition

No. 1344: Old favourite Set by Jaspistos: You are invited to in- corporate as plausibly as possible the fol- lowing words, in any order, in a piece of prose (maximum 150 words):......

No. 1341: The Winners

Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for blank verse 'about food or drink, none of the lines end-rhyming with another but each containing at least three mutually rhyming......