Things I Have Learned Today

1. The word for someone who is half European and half Japanese is hāfu. The original word was ainoko. In the 1950s konketsuji replaced both words because of prejudice, but hāfu seems to be the most widely used word today. 
2. What the ingredients are for a Silk Stocking cocktail.
3. What the statistics are for someone to have both red hair and blue eyes. 
4. The word corprophagia, a form of Pica. Pica is the compulsion to eat inedible objects. Corprophagia is eating faeces. 
5. That Dale Cregan, the one-eyed murderer from Manchester who killed PC Nicola Hughes and PC Fiona Bone, is currently at Ashworth Secure Hospital. He is there on hunger strike, alongside Ian Brady.Note: I had contact with two GMP officers on the day of PC Hughes's funeral. I spent many hours talking to the young female officer who went through training with one of the women. It was sad to listen to, but nice to watch the officer reminisce.