Quiz of the week
1) Which country house launched an annual opera festival in 1934 that continues to this day?
2) Who gives the sword Excalibur to King Arthur?
3) Together with some cetaceans, which fish falls under the Prerogative for Fishes Royal and belongs to The King?
4) What’s the name for the offspring of a male horse and a female donkey?
5) How many claws do dogs typically have on each of their hind paws?
Word of the week
Erumpent (adjective) Bursting forth
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE September 1, 1923
IT was early June when we started on the last lap of our long journey [into Tibet]. Across were pricking through clouds of pale blue cynoglossum and the slopes were pink and white with clots of rhododendron. On the rocks shimmered the silken petals of a blue poppy and the bogs were full of flags. Presently, we reached the crest of a spur which formed part of the rim of a great grassy bowl and without warning the vast white monastery [of Muli] burst into view.—
