A Paul Weller song for today in acknowledgement of our delightful walk this morning in the woods up by Selsey Common. It was good to be out of the sun while doing a decent walk. There are some wonderful Beech Trees up there. (one picture of the wood below) I recalled that in  my first job we took the whole school on a nature walk through those same woods. In those days there was much more freedom to do things like that in education and it was great fun! I know from speaking to past pupils I meet these days  they always remember fondly events like these.

I was surprised to hear that my football team have just reappointed our ex-manager today. Although in the current situation it is difficult to think about sport it doesn’t really seem that important. Having said that, I do miss it as I do pubs and mixing with friends and family.

Quiz answers  from yesterday.

a) Charlie’s grand parent’s are Grandpa Joe, Grandma Josephine, Grandma Georgina and Grandpa George,   b) The clock would sometimes strike 13 in Tom’s Midnight Garden  c) Smaug is the dragon in the Hobbit    d) Captain Ahab from Moby Dick    e) Captain Smollett captained the Hispaniola

Today’s Quiz following my walk is on woods and forests!

a) 20% of all drugs contain extracts of rainforest plants. From what does the malaria drug quinine derive?   b)  Which is the largest of the tree dwelling apes, whose name means “forest man”?   c) What is the largest parrot in a rainforest?   d) What type of plants are epiphytes?  e) What main Thomas Hardy character is named after a tree?