Your know some of that time spent sitting around watching tv during the lockdowns (all those years ago) did actually have hidden benefits.
According to some paper notes found during a clear out I’ve just discovered that the old adage about never being too old to learn is true
Courtesy of Millionaire Hot Seat one evening, in the short space of one hour I learnt that:-
- Polar bear females are called sows, not cows
- Young turkeys are called Jakes and Jennys
- Mangos are in the same family as Cashews and Pistachios
- The stumpy bits on a giffaffes head are called Ossicones
- Dolorous means sorrowful
And….
- If I want to go on a really really long trip, the distance from Earth to the Sun is about 150 million kilometres. How many days drive do you think that might be??
Maybe I’d better hang on to the bit of paper I jotted it down on because how long I’ll retain all that information is anybody’s guess
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It’s Monday Morning here, I’m enjoying my early cup of tea but it won’t be long ‘till breakfast time when The Golfer will join me. We’re on day4 after his cataract surgery – eye drops are a feature of the day (5 times daily) so like when Mummas were ‘on call’ because new babies had to be fed regularly I can’t go far as I have to be around to do these…..because he found he couldn’t see where the drop was going.
Out of curiosity I’ll bring up the subject of the lockdowns (6 here in Victoria- 262 days) with him over breakfast and see what he remembers. I know what one of his answers will be…….he couldn’t go to golf for what seemed like an eternity 😊
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