Quiz of the week
1) What would one measure using a pluviometer?
2) Which English Prime Minister had the first names William Ewart?
3) What institution is known as the ‘old lady of Threadneedle Street’?
4) ‘Fill-dike’ is a rural name for which month?
5) What are Rum, Eigg and Muck?
1) Rainfall 2) Gladstone 3) Bank of England 4) February 5) Hebridean islands
Cabinet of curiosities
by David Profumo
Chinese knife coin
DURING his final year at Oxford (1935), my father and two friends enjoyed a 10-week Grand Tour of Russia and the Far East, taking the Trans-Siberian railway (aboard which, according to his travel journal ‘Diary of a Nomad Boy’, he pretended to be the illegitimate son of
