Quiz of the week
1) What does a nidologist study?
2) The Crystal Palace, the venue for the 1851 Great Exhibition, was originally built in which London park?
3) Jane Fairfax is a character in which Jane Austen novel?
4) Chelsea is known as Britain’s greatest flower show, but is it also the largest?
5) England’s shortest county boundary is between which two counties?
Word of the week
Ruspicer (noun) Diviner, soothsayer
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE May 19, 1923
WE’VE got Norton and Lycett and Wheatley; we are not so bad; why, we might win.’ This was said in answer to the usual wail that England no longer produces lawn
