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Across the UK: the statue of Greyfriars Bobby wearing a tartan scarf ~ Edinburgh, Scotland.

British cuisine: Slow-baked clotted cream rice pudding

Ingredients
• 25g butter
• 100g short grain pudding rice
• 450ml full-fat milk
• 284ml pot double cream
• 227g tub clotted cream
• 1 split vanilla pod
• 85g golden caster sugar
• freshly grated nutmeg

Preparation Method
1. Heat oven to 180C. Lightly butter a shallow ovenproof dish. Wash the rice well under cold water, then drain. Bring the milk and creams to the boil with the vanilla pod, add the rice and sugar, then stir well.
2. Tip the rice into the prepared dish, then grate a little nutmeg over the top. Dot with k***s of butter, bake for 15 mins, lower the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3, then bake for 1 hr more, by which time the pudding should be golden brown on top and creamy underneath. Serve with spoonfuls of my raspberry jam.

Don’t let homonyms confuse you!

Across the UK: Dun Briste, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. This impressive, stratified sea stack was once part of the mainland but corrosive waves separated the two around 1393. Now the sea stack and the mainland just glare at each other, like a divorced couple who still share a house.

English idioms

Across the UK: Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, with the permission of Richard II.

Across the UK: Fairy Pools, The Highlands, Scotland.
Deep in the Isle of Skye is a collection of crystal clear pools connected by miniature waterfalls that are the perfect size for a dip, if you don’t mind freezing your body off.

Fun facts about education worldwide

In the Cuban high schools, studying is combined with work activity. Students from city schools go on agricultural works for 5-7 weeks per year.