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1.  A Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea Muscipula). The interior of the leaves have between three and six trigger hairs on the surface and when a fly, beetle, spider etc touches these trigger hairs the leaves snap shut in less than a second. The prey is then digested.
2.  A Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia) with bright purple veiny leaves which give off a scent to attract insects which then tumble down into the pitcher and are trapped by downward-pointing hairs.
3. Another pitcher plant with a trailing habit (Nepenthes Alata). This plant catches its prey in the same manner as the Sarracena with one slight difference, it has a small lid which it clamps shut! This variety can also be grown in a hanging basket indoors.

Quiz

1. What does a HYDROMETER measure?
2. Apart from being the name of a vehicle, what is the SIROCCO?
3. In days of yore, which ELEMENT was known to ALCHEMIST’S as BRIMSTONE?
4. RUBY is a gemstone consisting of which MINERAL ORE?
5. Who was the PRESENTER of Match of the day, immediately prior to GARY LINEKER?
6. According to the Shows Theme Tune, which TV family are “A PAGE RIGHT OUT OF HISTORY”.
7. To which OXFORDSHIRE town would one RIDE to 'SEE A FINE A LADY UPON A WHITE HORSE'
8. The MAU MAU UPRISING took place in which country in the 1950s.
9. JAZZ musicians STAN GETZ, SONNY ROLLINS and LESTER YOUNG all play which instrument.
10. Which ENGLISH MONARCH was also crowned as KING of FRANCE.

• Unpack the loin, let it warm up. 
• Warm the fennel and rosemary in a pan for approx 5 mins, this will release the flavours. Don't let it burn.
• transfer to a pestle and grind the fennel. If you don't have a pestle and mortar you can use a chopping board and the back of a tablespoon. Do not worry if the seeds don't grind down its the pressure to release flavour that's important, this will taste great anyway.
• mix the fennel, rosemary, chilli flakes with the olive oil, add salt and pepper and cover the pork (its perfectly acceptable to cut the pork loin in half to fit your roasting dish. If you are preparing this ahead of time then the loin and the mix can go into a freezer bag but it will be ok in the roasting dish for an hour or so before cooking. Just cover with foil. (if you are cooking for 1 then 1/2 can go in the fridge or freezer now)
• When you are ready to cook, pop the dish into the oven with the foil on for half the cooking time, then remove the foil. 
• Remove from the oven, rest in for 10 mins then carve. I carved about 2/3 into thicker slices and then carved the rest later into thinner slices for sandwiches the next day.
• Use the juices as the base for the sauce, add the veg oxo cube, the cornflower (mixed with a little COLD water) and add water until you have sufficient, bring to the boil stirring often. I use veg oxo because beef and chicken have a strong taste but if you have pork cubes then that's fine.

Quiz Answers

1.  THE SPECIFIC GRAVITY OF liquid PARTICULARLY USED IN BREWING AND DISTILLING OF SPIRITS.
2.  A HOT WIND THAT BLOWS FROM THE DESERTS OF NORTH AFRICA ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA TO SOUTHERN FRANCE
3. SULPHUR
4. CORUNDUM  (ALUMINIUM OXIDE)
5. DES LYNAM
6. THE FLINTSTONES
7. BANBURY
8. KENYA
9. SAXOPHONE (TENOR)
10. HENRY VI of England, crowned at RHEIMS in 1431 as HENRY II of FRANCE 

1. The letter arrived 10 days after we had our Flu jabs, our local surgery had texted us to book an appointment. So the letter was an unnecessary dent in CO2 emissions.
2. We have been cajoled into signing up for NHS accounts in the past, several in fact. However the NHS doesn't know which of its individual services are using digital systems so how can it be a HUB for communications.
3. I'm sure the nice doctor who wrote the three-page letter can doctor with the best of them but even my modest publishing experience could set out the document in two pages, thus halving the CO2 emissions immediately by requiring half the paper. (3 sides = 2 sheets, 2 sides = 1 sheet)
4. So they want me to have another password? To add to the three other NHS passwords I keep safe. That makes 127 passwords I now have to keep, every one different and they all include Upper case, Lower case, Numbers and Symbols. Oh, "£$%^^&&* It!