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For any mishaps that may occur on wooden window frames or skirting boards, you can use nail polish remover to tidy up unwanted paint splashes, or a thin highlighting brush – often found in hairdressing salons - to achieve the perfect painted edge.

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Kind fines

As reported by BBC News, a woman said she was “overwhelmed” after a stranger left money on her car to help pay for a parking fine. Selena Mills got a ticket from the machine in a car park in Mapperley Top, Nottingham, which allowed her to stay free for two hours. On her return she found she had been fined £25 due to her ticket blowing over, but she also found £20 and a note saying ‘From one mum to another’. Mother-oftwo Selena said she thought the ticket might have blown over when she shut the car door. After posting her thanks on Facebook, she tracked down the mystery donor. She said she had sobbed when she read the stranger’s note. “I think she has restored my faith in humanity,” she said.

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Quote of the month

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

Did you know?

Did you know it takes 70 different pieces of wood to make a violin? This explains why some of them are so expensive (one even sold for $16 million!)

Eagle population reaches new heights PUB QUIZ

The number of golden eagles in southern Scotland has hit its highest recorded level since the early 19th Century, BBC News has reported. There are now estimated to be more than 30 birds in an area where there were fewer than five breeding pairs just four years ago. The South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project has been relocating birds to the region since 2018. It started bringing chicks from the Highlands but has now begun introducing older birds and is the first project in the UK to move golden eagles aged between six months and three years from one area to another. The latest additions are seven birds caught in the Outer Hebrides and then transported and released in the south of the country.

1. In what country is K2, the second-tallest mountain in the world?

2. Sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily were members of which 19th century literary family? 3. In what year was the Great Fire of London? 4. What was the name of Samuel L. Jackson’s character in Pulp Fiction? 5. In Friends, who plays Rachel’s sister Jill?

Answers: 1. Pakistan 2. The Brontë family 3. 1666 4. Jules 5. Reese Witherspoon

Knock me down with a feather

A record-breaking strawberry A farmer in Israel has entered the Guinness World Records after he grew the largest strawberry on record, says Sky News. Weighing in at 289g, it has been declared the world’s largest after Chahi Ariel spent a year farming it; the previous record was held by a strawberry grown in 2015 in Fukuoka, Japan, that tipped the scales at 250g. The strawberry was picked on Mr Ariel’s family farm near Netanya in central Israel in February 2021 and has been stored in a freezer ever since. “We waited for a year for the results. We kept it in the freezer for a year - it’s no longer as pretty as it was,” Chahi said. The strawberry is a local variety called Ilan, which tends to grow to a hefty size. Sadly, the record-setting fruit has shrunk to about half the size it was a year ago.