Quiz of the week
1) Cox’s Orange Pippin, Egremont Russet and Beauty of Kent are all varieties of which fruit?
2) The heiress Portia is a character in which Shakespeare play?
3) Despite being known as killer whales, orcas are the largest species of which other cetacean family?
4) The withers are which part of a horse’s body?
5) William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais were founders and leading members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood together with which artist that was also a poet?
Word of the week
Nipcheese (noun and adjective) A ship’s purser, a miserly person or (adjective) mean, miserly
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE July 7, 1923
UP to the), a supremely graceful, picturesque affair, that is carried out in gold lamés and gold lace.