http://barker-family.info/nigeblog Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://barker-family.info/nigeblog/2011/08/every-day-is-a-learning-day/ http://barker-family.info/nigeblog/2011/08/every-day-is-a-learning-day/#comments Tue, 16 Aug 2011 20:43:31 +0000 Nigel http://barker-family.info/nigeblog/?p=432 Things I have learnt this week:

1. Birds can see colours we can’t — thanks Douglas Coupland
2. Oklahoma was a Native American territory and only became a state in 1907. Native Americans owned slaves there after the American Civil War — thanks Don Cheadle interview in the Guardian
3. “Eleven Plus Two” has a mathematically equal anagram — thanks Johnston
4. 15 minutes of daily exercise can give you another three years of life — thanks BBC, I’ll bear that in mind
5. Gap, H&M and Marks & Spencers produce size 36 trousers that fit me. Firetrap don’t
6. Lobster Thermidor doesn’t mean grilled lobster — thanks Andy for the bum steer

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