Another Day another... what's the exchange rate again??

Well, I survived a Cub Scout sleepover... not that there was much sleeping... and there's a Panto this weekend.. Snow White and the seven vertically challenged people, apparently.... should be a laugh... our local panto society at Thringstone tend to overact, wear too much make-up, crack very bad puns and rely on a script full of old innuendoes... which, lets be honest, is what I go to a panto for... two hours of laughing at blokes dressed as women, women dressed as, well, women pretending to be men, idiot policemen and lots of audience participation.... its always a treat, and I go every year... plus they always throw sweets.... except for one year.... due to a faulty spell checker the script called for them to throw suites, and six people were injured by a G-Plan sofa... but again, I digress... or do I??

On a more serious note, I was saddened last week to hear of the death of the great Magnus Magnusson, who most people would remember as being the original host of Mastermind... I always remember him as author of one of my favourite books as a child, "Viking Expansion Westwards"... what a fascinating picture of childhood that conjures up... I always remember reading that book, aged 9 (me, not the book) and finding out that the first Europeans to reach America were not Columbus and his crew, but Leif Erikson and his viking comrades.... it was then I realised for the very first time that what we are taught in schools is not necessarily the truth... gravity doesn't pull us to the ground, we fall into it... electricity doesn't travel from positive to negative... the North Pole is a south pole... and dinosaurs were not reptiles... since then, I have never taken any facts on face value... I have also learned about the (very valuable and useful) teaching method known as "lies to children" and that schools are usually at least 10 years (and often more) behind science... thank you to Magnus Magnusson for opening my eyes...

That's about it... hopefully at some point in the future I will be letting you know how my new soldering iron performs, and how my trip to the Battlefield of Bosworth turns out... untilthen, Wisebeard salutes you.....