5 JUNE 1982, page 33

Low Life

Festschrift Jeffrey Bernard T he business of being 50 last week pass e d surprisingly nicely and wasn't w e traumatic horror I'd expected. And what a strange mixture were the......

Competition

No. 1221: Woodnotes wild Set by Jaspistos: This is the time of year when those who contribute Nature Notes to newspapers wax lyrical. You are invited to parody such a columnist......

No. 1218: The Winners

Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for a rhymed poem leadenly prosaic in tone and content. 'Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands' was surely the most leaden......