Quiz of the week
1) Which naturalist lived at Selborne in Hampshire?
2) What did the Rosetta Stone enable experts to read for the first time?
3) By what name is the shallow nest of the hare known?
4) Who is the patron saint of Ireland?
5) The characters Bigwig and Fiver appear in which novel?
1) The Revd Gilbert White 2) Egyptian hieroglyphs 3) Form 4) St Patrick 5) ‘Watership Down’
Cabinet of curiosities by David Profumo
Cigarette packets
NOW installed as a collage above my Perthshire fireplace, this collection of about 350 cigarette packets dates from my 1974 gap year and student smoking days, when my room was as cloudy as a nephelosphere (that 40-a-day habit would,
