Things I learned today (Part 2)

If like me anyone ever wondered why they are all called something escu in Romania. It means son of. So Peterescu means Peterson.

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Perpignan is dull enough with some nice places close by. Something I’ve learned this weekend

And what are the women called?

Eci

Max Verstappen is Belgian.

Bees cannot fly in the dark and will fall to ground if they are flying and it gets dark

Sounds reasonable to me but I never thought much about it really.

Wake up sheeple

Flowers that open at night are pollinated by bats and moths.

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Marcella Detroit, half of shakespeares sister, co-wrote the Eric Clapton hit “lay down sally”

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Always thought that was an old song he put a spin on. The other girl got a lot more of the limelight. Siobhan Fahey?

Not surprising Fahey got more of the attention; married to Dave ‘eurythmics’ Stewart and she was a member of bananarama

That documentary is excellent. Comes across as a really decent human

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Siobhan wrote ‘Young at Heart’

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Siobhan is wan of our own

Tipp parents?

Yep. But was brought up in Meath I think before moving to England

Rose Dugdale

I was having a cup of tea this morning with the in laws and this lady came ip in conversation. Legend.

She took refuge in my house (a good few years before I was born) whilst Eddie hijacked a helicopter and dropped the milk churns over Derry. Himself and my father were very close. They were flatmates in London. My mum remembers her using one cigarette to light the next from the moment he left until he returned. She definitely stuck to her principles as she matured.

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Rte had a documentary about her during the summer called The Heiress and the heist. Was decent enough.

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