The Numskulls

At the beginning of last month we went to stay with my cousins in Essex.

In the Wars

Beagles are supposed to be a healthy breed but Bertie is bucking the trend.

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A Dog’s Dinner

Bertie is off-colour. He had a sore paw and then caught kennel cough in the vets’ waiting room.

Tied Up

When I came to live and work in London in 1976 my grandfather generously thought of a couple of things to make me fit in.

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The Efficient Eimear

Unlike Lord Emsworth my grandfather rather enjoyed having a secretary. He called her Miss Tappitt, not to her face.

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The Kadir Cup

F Yeats-Brown describes a day pig-sticking in Bengal Lancer. If only his horse was faster he might win the Kadir Cup he muses.

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Death on the Thames

Margravine Cemetery is all things to all men, women, children, fauna, flora, birds of the air and creepy-crawlies.