Quiz of the week
1) What animal is Falco tinnunculus?
2) Who set William Blake’s The Lamb to music?
3) Which is England’s highest chalk sea cliff?
4) Who designed the Albert Memorial in London’s Kensington Gardens?
5) In Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes, what animal is Mrs Hackee?
Word of the week
Noodledom (noun) Foolishness; a collection of foolish people
100 years ago in January 13, 1923
WITHIN half an hour’s train ride from Charing Cross, I came across the home of ‘the oldest known species of mammal now living on the face of the earth’, to quote an authority on the subject. The spot was within a few hundred yards of
