I'm sure bungee jumping must make a person feel uniquely alive and pumped full of adrenaline but what it also quite good is going on a long walk and stumbling across the remains of a medieval dovecote.

The thing I like particularly about the fact that Isaac Newton invented the catflap is it gives the image of him trying to lay the foundations of classical mechanics but getting distracted by having to let a cat out then in again 40 seconds later and thinking, “Shit, I really need to sort this.”

in answer to my teenage self: yes other cultures make up gibberish pretending to be english, just as you do with other languages. And here’s what they sound like: youtu.be/fU-wH8SrFro?...