Country Life
WE are blessed with singers here. The village inn closes and the singing begins. Two farm labourers were leaning against each other by way of saying goodnight. Instead of......
Swimming Snake
Seeing several water-birds on the fringe of ,the lake, I thought the swirl on the surface was caused by .one of their young. I hurried along the shore, hoping to intercept it......
Deceiving A Fish
Years ago, when I first read Izaak Walton, I was fascinated by his account of fishing with a fly. The desire to learn the art never left me, and, although I have fished many......
Theatre
The Trial of Mr. Pickwick. By Stanley Young. (Westminster.) How quickly, when one reads Pickwick, the mind's eye discards Tupman, Snodgrass and Winkle ! Yet in any stage version......
The Prize Marrow The Growers Of Prize Marrows Have Their
secrets and guard them jealously. Half the battle is to have a rich bed upon which to grow the plants. Lawn-clippings provide heat and compost. A mixture of cut grass and rich......
Ballet
At Sadler's Wells, Svetlana Beriosova has been dancing Coppelia. Her Swanildk is charming in mood and particularly well danced in Act II. Stanley Holden's Dr. Coppelius was also......
Country Wines
The cowslips have just passed - and the dandelions are nearly over, but soon the clover will be up at its best and the elderfiower covering the tree. Years ago- the old......
- The .failure
His ambition was to be always seen, Handsome under floodlights or in white, Graceful on the summer's fluting green : White flash and crack, creating frantic flight Of ball to......
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