I started watching a TV documentary tonight. It featured an
old inn somewhere in the south of England,
which the commentary said was associated with:
‘Lady Jane Grey, wife of Henry VIII...’
I turned it off as soon as I could be bothered to reach for
the remote control. This is probably even worse than a line in another
documentary about Cleopatra, which said:
‘At the time of Julius Caesar, the Roman Empire
stretched from North Africa in the south to Hadrian’s
Wall in the north.’
A word of advice: Don’t believe anything you hear in a TV
documentary unless it’s something you already know. In which case, why bother
to watch it at all? Do a jigsaw puzzle or something instead.
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