Quiz of the week
1)In the Bible, what is the name of Adam and Eve’s first-born child?
2) In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, who does Lydia Bennet marry?
3) Tin denotes which wedding anniversary?
4) A carrick bend is a type of what?
5) Which plant genus includes swede and mustard?
Word of the week
Maculation (noun) The state of being covered in spots, be it acne or an animal’s markings
100 years ago in COUNTRY LIFE November 17, 1923
LAST week the last snuff mill in Scotland stopped work. For 200 years it has, at Juniper Green, near Edinburgh, turned out ‘snee-shin’ for the consumption of the native
