Venison Sausage
Sm.—In your issue of January 17th, 1941, Mr. H. E. Bates, in the " Country Life " column asks for enlightenment upon the appearance and subsequent fate of the venison sausage.......
The Piper Heresies
SIR,-1 did not accuse Mr. Williams-Ellis of indifference to the claims of Regency and Georgian buildings: nor, having read several of his excellent books on architecture, was I......
After Caporetto
Sta,--There must be many among your readers who took part in the Battle of Piave as I did, but as none have come forward to reply to Captain Dale's letter in The Spectator of......
In The Garden Melons Are Normally Regarded In England As
luxury food, and the price in the late summer of 1940 rarely fell, in London shops, below six or seven shillings for. small fruit. Yet melons are, in my exPeri' ence, as simply......
Mole Catching The News That Ten Million Moleskins Are Needed
for export will recall the days when, during and after the last war, mole-catching was one of the most profitable of country crafts; Pelts fetched high prices ; a man and a boy......
Country Life
Shrove Tuesday Shrove Tuesday, originally a day of shriving and confession, be aux for many centuries the strangest and most boisterous day i n t h e English calendar. In the......
Storm Colour Almost Any Year, On A Day In February,
snow-clouds of indigo. blue come up from the North and thicken beyond the hills in the late afternoon while the sun is still strong in the South-West. Suddenly the stark light......
4,000 Tons Of Birds Sta,—mr. Bates's Letter In Your Issue
of February 7th prompts me to enlarge upon the subject of eating small birds from the purely statistical point of view. The breeding land-bird population of Great Britain is,......
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