Today has been a quiet day – waiting for my broadband to be upgraded (twice the speed for £6 a month less – same company). So I only did a little bit of work and watched a few TV programmes.
Antiques roadtrip featured a hotel today. One that I had stayed in before and had rated quite high in terms of the luxury level in the common areas.
This is the Shap Wells hotel, and if you enjoy walking and nature this is a fantastic place to stay.
What surprised me on TV was that this hotel was a WW2 prisoner of war camp for German officers.
The other thing that surprised me was the pointless fact that 25% of people knew that the moon landings were called “Apollo”. Now that shocked me.
It struck me that we could benefit from random fact education. Thinking I might do some Zoom “random things you didn’t know” evenings. A sort of reverse quiz – an evening of answers.
And then there was the Arnie film with men in suits trying to dance disco – reaching for some stomach medicine….