AGE shall not weary them, nor the years condemn’... words that we are accustomed to hearing at this time of year in relation to those who gave their lives in the two World Wars. They are words of great solemnity, yet I find myself musing upon them when it comes to tilling the soil in my garden and my veg patch, for the implements I use are, with a few exceptions, very old.
Far from wearying them or condemning them to the scrapheap, the years have done much to improve