Quiz of the week
1) What’s the name for a female seal?
2) In which county is Buxton, one of Britain’s highest market towns?
3) Joseph Paxton’s Crystal Palace was partly based on a glasshouse he had designed for which estate?
4) Who composed the opera Dido and Aeneas?
5) Moles belong to which animal family?
Word of the week
Giggish (adjective) Lively, flighty, wanton
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE March 31, 1923
THE advantages of using electricity for cooking, so far as concerns cleanness and absence of all dirt and smell, are sufficiently obvious. But [there are] other advantages. The temperature (due to heating of the air in the oven by electric elements) can be kept absolutely constant at the
