Quiz of the week
1) The word ovine refers to which animals?
2) Boudicca was the ruler of which East Anglian tribe?
3) What cordial is made from the flowers of Sambucus nigra?
4) Which famous spy-novel writer also wrote children’s book Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang?
5) What’s the name of the place where bats live?
Word of the week
Subsecute (verb) Follow closely, pursue
100 years ago in June 30, 1923
AS society in England grew larger and a middle class was formed, we suddenly become conscious of a peculiarity in manners unheard of before: the practice of ‘cutting’ an acquaintance. Whole chapters are devoted to the disdain and; but in England it was observable in the manners of the oldest of families.—
