Quiz of the week
1) Who composed the opera Gloriana in 1953?
2) Which tea-linked Whig politician became Prime Minister in 1830?
3) Who was the first British author to win a Nobel Prize for Literature?
4) Which main river flows across York?
5) The English word mayday derives from the call ‘help me’ in which language?
Word of the week
Bruiter (noun) Someone who spreads news or rumours
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE April 28, 1923
ALTHOUGH one swallow may not make a summer, the presence or absence of the King’s yacht () can make or mar a yachting season. As evidence of this, one needs look no further than last year, when, big yacht racing ceased to exist; while in 1921, when the Royal Yacht went the round of the regattas, she was accompanied by a fine fleet of large vessels which enjoyed splendid racing. The news that is being overhauled in readiness for the coming season is, in these circumstances, particularly gratifying and the racing this year should be the best experienced since the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 put a period to sport.—
