... Roll Up Carve Up By T. A. LAYTON THE days of the family joint are with us again. But is there not a lost genera tion who have never known the art of carving. Let's face it; this is a man's job. True, the woman can often do it better than the male, but somehow you always feel that it isn't her place to do so, any more than it is hers to buy, decant or pour the wine. The word carve comes from ...

... by Fred Player I HAD not realised the complications arising from the use of modern farm machinery until I heard of Ken's experience with the anhydrous ammonia injector. You know what Ken is like! Initiative is his middle name. There he was in the middle of this ley pumping the stuff in, when he had one of his more progressive thoughts. There's the fence at the bottom of my garden, he thought ...

... Fred Player records the midnight musings of Bob, with his 170-cow herd, as he faces the new year ahead in the seventies BOB dropped his copy of his favourite farm magazine on to the floor, pulled the eiderdown up, gave his wife a shove to establish the fact that she was occupying more than her fair share of the matrimonial couch, and switched off the light. From downstairs came the steady ...