6 SEPTEMBER 1986, page 34

Imperative Cooking: A Suitable School

EVERY time I pick up the local paper, it is to find someone whining about 'school dinners'. These turn out to be lunches in the local council schools and the county council is......

Competition

Crazy chain Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1436 you were asked to supply a 'crazy chain' of messages (six including the original) garbled by oral transmission. `Tickle your arse......

No. 1439: After Lovelace

If Lovelace had been writing to Lucasta today, his famous first line might have read, 'Don't tell me, sweet, that I'm unkind . . A lyric, please, in the metre and rhyme-scheme......