Quiz of the week
1) Which settlement was Roman Britain’s first colonia, but only received city status in 2022?
2) What colour is the female blackbird?
3) The expression ‘My salad days’ appears in which Shakespeare play?
4) Fair Maids of February is a name for which much-loved flower?
5) The UK has how many native toad species?
Word of the week
Pusillanimous (adjective) Timid, cowardly
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE
February 17, 1923
THE journey from Hai-phong to Mengzi takes two days. For half of the first day the train humps itself like a caterpillar along steppingstones in a wet wilderness of rice-fields. Soon the rice-fields are not so much replaced by hills as trapped among hills. The skyline bristles
