“The Three Sisters”

“The Three Sisters,” Ingleby-Greenhow
by George Markham Tweddell
Three tiny streamlets, on the barren moor,
Were glittering ’neath the bright rays of the sun:
Pleasant it was to mark, where’er they run
Along the summit of the mountain hoar,
How beautiful rich mosses mark’d their way!
These steams united, and went trickling on
To add their waters to the neighb’ring burn,
Which help’d t ...

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Quiz time: what is a scud?

If you'd have asked me a week or so ago, I would have said a Scud was a Soviet Union designed ballistic missiles used in the Iraq war.

I have since learnt that a scud is a glider, a low-level detached, irregular cloud, and an acronym that is too crude for me to repeat here, but something to do with dynamite.

This was all prompted by a reader ...

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