Quiz of the week
1) Which poet, inspired by an old folk song, wrote the words for Auld Lang Syne?
2) What’s a female rabbit called?
3) We are ushering in 2023, but we are behind the Jewish calendar by how many millennia?
4) Which town holds a parade of men carrying flaming whisky barrels on New Year’s Eve?
5) What is the common name of Betula pendula, which also goes by the folkloric ‘Lady of the Woods’?
Word of the week
Fardel (noun) Bundle, collection, burden
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE December 30, 1922
ACCORDING to the BOU list published in 1915, the white-winged lark () [now] has occurred six times in Great Britain. (1920) gives
