The Bog Midge

Tidying my fly-box the other day, I came across three very special flies and presented them to a friend who has recently taken up fishing. A year or two ago when I was in Dublin......

Inspiration

An enthusiasm for tidying up took me and I hurried down to the shed for the hedging knife with which I could clear a great patch of briar and thorn that has somehow been......

Music

Prokoflev THE music of Prokoflev, who died last year, is enjoying a belated boom, and this last week his fifth symphony and two of his piano sonatas have been heard in London......

A Blood Drinker

While on the path leading to the kitchen garden, I saw a rabbit slithering and scamper- ing down the face of the cliff. As it reached the bottom and bounded into the weeds, a......

Country. Life A Float Of Sheep Pulled , In To The

field gateway in front of me and I waited for the cargo to be unloaded. An old man joined me and watched the sheep jumping down. They proved to be sturdy little animals that had......

Cinema

Julius Caesar. (Carlton.)—Wife for a Night. (Marble Arch Pavilion.)—Second Chance. (Odeon, Marble Arch.) WHAT a magnificent play is Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and how greatly......