Quiz of the week
1) In which year did Elizabeth II succeed to the throne?
2) Greensleeves and Early Windsor are varieties of what fruit?
3) In which county is Reading?
4) The Magna Carta was written in which language?
5) What weather-related event can also be described as an ‘inundation’?
1) 1952 2) Apple 3) Berkshire 4) Latin 5) Flood. Riddle me this: A river
Riddle me this
I have two banks, but no money. What am I?
Cabinet of curiosities by David Profumo
Cuban cocktail tray
ON my first of many visits to Cuba, in 1997, I acquired this gaudy souvenir tray from La Bodeguita del Medio, a cramped, historic restaurant-bar in colourful downtown Habana Vieja,
