Quiz of the week
1)What’s the national flower of Scotland?
2) The Scottish outpost of the V&A is situated in which city?
3) Madame Defarge is a character in which Dickens novel?
4) Margaret Beaufort was the mother of which dynasty-founding monarch?
5) The Aylesbury is a breed of which bird?
Word of the week
Ultra-crepidarian (noun and adjective) An ignorant, presumptuous critic or (adjective) airing opinions beyond one’s knowledge
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE July 28, 1923
AT No. 1, Mount Row we have [an] interesting example of the conversion of a mews building into a dwelling-house. Its exterior does not stir one’s enthusiasm,) and, looking at it, we may conjure up a picture of the coach-house that formerly occupied the space. What a change! On the opposite side of the hall is the drawing-room, formerly the stable. Here the decorative treatment is French in style. On the first floor is one bedroom, also French in character. The bathroom is panelled out in marble. For the rest, there are three bedrooms on the top floor and, in the basement, the service quarters have been very handily contrived.—
