learned about: paramedics in London, the worlds fastest computer, channel 5 TV presenting, setting up temporary traffic lights in S.England, the international stand up comedy circuit, the UK paper-mill industry, golf course development, setting up record labels, al quaeda, french farmers, ibiza, the football star lookalike industry, tony blair, sports coaching, poi, solo round the world sailing, biotechnology, tatoos, danish kings, bill clinton's childhood, long distance lorry drivers, school teaching, stag beetles, 20th century schools of philosphical thought, the RAF, oil rigs...

learned that: nobody has more than a small fraction of understanding about how the world works.