Quiz of the week
1) Which of Britain’s commonly found native snakes is the longest?
2) Which British composer put to music The Song of Hiawatha?
3) Who won the 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury?
4) Who wrote Moll Flanders?
5) What’s the common name of the rare bird Tetrao urogallus?
Word of the week
Anfractuous (adjective) Winding, full of turnings
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE February 3, 1923
SIR Christopher Wren had, with his usual intuition, grasped the nature of St James’s as being the home, not the palace, of the king, so that his rooms were stately but not grandiose. The profuse gilding [that was applied later], however, sought to give the apartments a
