Quiz of the week
1) Which Warwickshire town has Royal status?
2) What’s the proper name for a squirrel’s ‘nest’?
3) How many wings do honeybees have?
4) Who composed the 40-part motet Spem in Alium in the 16th century?
5) Which 12th-century heiress was wife to two kings, mother of two more and ended her days in France as a nun?
Word of the week
Docibility (noun)
Aptness for being taught
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE April 7, 1923
TO say that that Mr. Augustus John painted his portrait of Mme. Suggia ‘by ear’ is only an extravagant way of stating a truth, because the picture is really a
