Local Lynx No.131 - April/May 2020

more delicious food. We are delighted that Elsie Temple has
now taken over the Anchor - which has been in her family
for about 130 years - and so we look forward to a new and
exciting time there.
MORSTON QUIZ
by Samphire (answers on page 31)
1. Which component of English punctuation is also the
name of a common English butterfly?
2. How many times must the winning horse in the Grand
National have jumped if we assume it has finished the
course?
3. Who are the only four successive kings of England who
have had the same name?
4. Which is the largest animal to build a nest?
5. The name of which game is derived from the name of a
game which in Italy and France refers to a black and white
hooded cloak, once worn by priests?
6. Explain how the record for the Women‟s Discus in 2006
was 76.80 metres, whereas the men‟s discus record for 2006
was only 74.08 metres.
7. Where would you expect to see the letters BCE, ECB,
EZB, EKT and EKP?
8. An English river, a Scottish river, a Russian river: they all
have the same name. What‟s that?
9. What do you need to have done in order to be allowed to
join the sporting charity The Primary Club?
10. In The Mikado what is the name of the youngest sister
in the care of the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko?
11. What is the name of the two U.S. states that end in “y”?
12. If three dice are stacked on top of each other, and a 3 is
showing on top, what is he total of the hidden spots?
SAXLINGHAM
Contact: John Pridham 01328 831851
jcwpridham@gmail.com
NATURE NOTES
One of the delights of living in this part of the country is
witnessing, as your scribe did, a rather wonderful collection
of wildlife. Adjoining our parish late one January morning I
saw five red deer, four roe deer and six muntjac, and that is
not counting the pheasants.
ST MARGARET’S CHURCH
An update on bats
It may interest our readers to know about our bats.
Following a bat survey and mitigation proposals, three
options are being considered to deal with this issue. They
are: creating an enclosed roost void in the North Transept
above the Vestry; providing roost in the Silence Chamber
which is a part of the Tower; and, for the pipistrelles,
providing external bat boxes on the church walls or on
suitable trees close to the church.
The Bats in Churches Project, alongside the Churches
Conservation Trust, will be hosting three Cleaning
Workshops in Norfolk this year.
SPRING
Meteorological Spring from 1 March is upon us, or as
Gerard Manley Hopkins put it in the first verse of his poem:
“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –
When weeds in wheels shoot long and lovely and lush;
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