Quiz of the week
1) What is the UK’s largest natural lake by area?
2) Who was the first ever Archbishop of Canterbury?
3) How many conifers are native to the UK?
4) Which British author won the Nobel prize for literature in 1932?
5) What’s Scotland’s national animal?
Word of the week
Pogonotrophy (noun) Beard growing
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE October 14, 1922
ALTHOUGH storks are generally associated with northern countries, they migrate in winter to Africa and are to be found in large numbers in Morocco.
Almost every minaret is crowned with a great bulging nest and its unwieldy inhabitants, with their black and white plumage and red bill, either lost in one-legged contemplation or flapping clumsily about
