9 FEBRUARY 1974, page 17

A Beldam's Dish

Pamala Vandyke Price People react in diverse ways crises, but I had not anticipate", that the current complications 0 ' life would strip the years off sd many contemporary......

Fretful Midges

Peter Quince After the great gales, which felled a couple of fine old trees in the parish and littered the ground with severed branches and broken twigs, the countryside slipped......