Reading a UK hallmark: three marks you need and the optional ones
By Porter Lang Turn a piece of silver over and look for the stamps. A row of small shapes, none […]
By Porter Lang Turn a piece of silver over and look for the stamps. A row of small shapes, none […]
By Ines Keane Water comes up out of the ground in Bath at 46 °C. It has done so for
By Porter Lang Start with the sums, because every walker who gets lost gets lost in them. On an Explorer
By Rafe Calder A pasty is a shape, and a shape is not a place. Wikipedia says “pasty” was long
By Isla Quinn Pull. Bang. A hat falls out. Every part of that has its own date, and the sources
By Ines Keane Start with the number. Wikipedia gives Hay-on-Wye a population of 1,675 at the 2021 census. A town
By Ines Keane There are no plums in a plum pudding. That is the first thing every source we read
By Porter Lang Gear first. A billhook, an axe, loppers and a pruning saw. Gardens Illustrated, a gardening magazine, lists
By Rafe Calder A gross is 144. In the Chiltern beech woods, a bodger was reckoned to have a job
By Isla Quinn Start with the river. The Wye runs through Bakewell under a bridge with five arches, and the