- It has an apostrophe in its title.
- The Religious Tract Society isn't the great publishing phenomenon it once was.
- Such things are only available on Kindle.
- Boys can't read - even Nolan has been known to listen to a download of his set text (currently Fantastic Mr Fox) rather than read the original. He is definitely a chip, but not necessarily off this old block in this particular.
- Nobody knows what derring-do actually is. A quick vox pop around my top set in Year Seven came up with 'that magician bloke'.
In other news ...
James Cook came across a group of islands in the Pacific 234 years ago today which the locals called Hawaii. The locals didn't like Cook very much - except perhaps as a light snack, as they eventually killed and, according to an inaccurate legend, ate him - probably because he called their land the Sandwich Islands. I should explain - because everyone has now forgotten - that this was in honour of the Earl of Sandwich, Comptroller (Big Cheese) of the Navy and not because of the snack thing mentioned earlier. Aloha!