Country Matters

By MARGARET BROWN THERE IS a saying that ‘what goes around comes around’ and, judging by the mores of western society today, this could be applied to the festival of

SEPARATED FROM the house by 150 metres of drenched greenery, puddles and mud, my office is guaranteed privacy when it rains: a jungle of eucalyptus saplings from the stumps of

SHEEP WORRYING is a capital offence in Britain and any dog proven guilty is either destroyed or, if it is reprieved, must be suitably restrained for the rest of its

By MARGARET BROWN TOUGH FOR holidaymakers who landed at Faro last weekend just in time for a couple of day’s heavy downpour, but a source of joy and satisfaction to

By MARGARET BROWN ON SUNDAY, October 29, the clocks go back one hour in most European countries and some people have another hour in bed. Others would like to, but

By MARGARET BROWN FOR THE city dweller, pigs mean pork, to the butcher a pig arrives in two halves to be sliced, boned and packaged. While for the farmer, who

By MARGARET BROWN BIG BROTHER is watching you! The book by George Orwell entitled 1984 came out in 1949 and, at the time, the very idea of “thought police” monitoring

THE FACT that the weather has cooled down a few degrees is not in doubt. In my office, our bedroom, and even skulking under lavatory seats, hungry female mosquitoes are

SOMETIMES IT is a disadvantage to have an acute sense of smell, especially during a season of high temperatures such as we have had this summer. A drive through the

AFTER ALL that fuss and bother about licensing our cars as the cut off date came and went, as soon as the time was extended to the end of July,