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Standing By

... since the Battle of the Baltic (1801). Judging by the Press boys' apathy, you 'd think victories were plentiful nowadays as blackberries. We 'd personally have seized the clangorous lyre of Thos. Boy Thunder bolt Campbell, relating how to battle, fresh as ...

Published: Wednesday 05 January 1949
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1194 | Page: 23 | Tags: Illustrations 

END-OF-SEASON TASKS

... as soon as possible after all the fruit has been gathered this section com prises raspberries, loganberries, cultivated blackberries, boysenberries and all other hybrid berries. It is the simplest of all pruning operations so simple, in fact, that the ...

SWEETS

... for those who live in the country, for elder berries are rarely to be found in the shops, but should there be any late blackberries this year they may be used instead. Pick a good-sized basket full of the fruit and pass it through a sieve. For each cupful ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1720 | Page: 49 | Tags: Illustrations 

Standing By...: One Thins and Another

... the office member of the G.A.J, (we know one) telling them about cows named Blossom or Dam son, or a dear old horse named Blackberry, or a pet goose named Spitfire. Rapt, the boys listen, firing quick, searching, intelligent questions. What 's a cow look ...

Published: Wednesday 05 July 1944
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1651 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: Nosebag or Saucepan?

... Woolton's thesis is that nearly all of them have to be wafted across the high seas, whereas porridge (so to say) grows on every blackberry-bush. Then why not (in a manner of speaking) gather it while ye may _ Though mvself an addict rot uc nosebag variety of ...

Published: Wednesday 22 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2318 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Cottage and a Cow

... vegetables, and fruit. We have even our own fuel, for there is an abundance of wood when I can find time to cut and haul it. A blackberry kitten was born and we have four cats they have cleared the place of rats and mice and we did not have a single potato ...

Published: Saturday 01 July 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2168 | Page: 50 | Tags: Illustrations 

Off The Map: The Story of a Solemn Promise Which Was Broken

... bomber. He thought of nothing night and day but Miranda and the island. When they found him at Land's End living in a hut on blackberries and a month's points expended on dates, and building a raft in a passion of feverish activity, they thought it was time ...

Published: Wednesday 01 November 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3583 | Page: 64 | Tags: Illustrations