Quiz of the week
1) Which royal personage bought the Balmoral estate for Queen Victoria in 1852?
2) Becky Sharp is a character in which novel by William M. Thackeray?
3) Which great 20th-century British composer wrote the opera Billy Budd to a libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier?
4) What kind of insect is the common darter?
5) Comparing their city centres, which is further west, Liverpool or Edinburgh?
Word of the week
Galanterie (noun) Courtesy or politeness, especially as shown to women
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE October 6, 1923
THE importance of teaching a dog to enter water with a zest equal to that which he exhibits in
