Spoon Garden in Grasmere

Spoon Garden in Grasmere

A SPOONFUL OF FACTS AND FUN:

-A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in the most delightful way?
-The best way to eat mince and quince is with a runcible spoon?
-Whenever a cow jumps over the moon a dish runs away with a spoon?
-Being spoon-fed is a terrible habit to get into when revising for exams?
-Spooning in bed is a great way of keeping warm?
-The Welsh invented love spoons – wooden love tokens carved with symbols which men gave to their sweethearts?
-A ‘spoonerism’ (error of speech or deliberate play on words) is named after the Reverend William Spooner of New College, Oxford, who was notorious for mixing up his words?

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