From Mr F. M. M. Steiner

From Dr Leonard Black

HYPER was the most boring pet I ever had. All he did was lurk under a rock and try to bite my fingers when I fed him. In the end I decided that even slugs would be better company, so I evicted him from the aquarium and chucked him in the Thames.

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MODERN thinking on the staking of trees suggests the stake should not be so tall as to stop entirely the movement of the tree. The theory - and it works - is that the movement of the crown is transmitted to the roots and encourages them to develop more quickly, in order to provide adequate support. A stake about knee-high works perfectly on slender, feathered trees up to 6ft or 7ft tall. They learn to fend for themselves very quickly.

MY FRIEND Mike used to spend his summer holidays by Loch Ness, looking for the monster. He lived on a diet of fried spam and got very wet, but every summer he would be back, echo-sounder at the ready. Curious really, because when pushed, he would admit that he was virtually convinced the monster did not exist.