Today’s WOTD – 21 September 2012

drupe

[droop]
noun (Botany)
any fruit, as a peach, cherry, plum, etc., consisting of an outer skin, a usually pulpy and succulent middle layer, and a hard and woody inner shell usually enclosing a single seed.

Drupa means ‘over-ripe olive’.

A coconut is a fruit that is classified as a drupe.

Today’s quote

‘I don’t know half of you half as as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve’.

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, quoted from the speech by Bilbo Baggins at the birthday party to celebrate his eleventy-first (111th) birthday.

On this day

21 September – International Day of Peace.

21 September – World Alzheimer’s Day.

21 September 1937 – J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ first published.

21 September 2012 – ‘The Hobbit Second Breakfast’ at 11am – to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Hobbit, people everywhere are invited to celebrate the Hobbit Second Breakfast at 11am by popping on the kettle and sitting down with family and friends for camaraderie, companionship and a love of good food.