A Few Questions from the Beach

This sunbathing lark really is puzzling me. I just cannot lie there thinking about nothing. I guess I never will get to be an airhead. Drat. But you cannot always think about work, life, family, West Ham (not in that order). Questions occasionally crop up. This is not a competition as any fool can check out the answers on google to win (Lucian Miers being the sort of fool who would). But can anyone answer any of the following?

1. What is the difference between a sea and a large lake? Please answer including a reference to the Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea which are much smaller than Lake Michigan.

2. Prince Phillip was born in Corfu. How much Greek does Phil the Greek actually speak?

3. While Phil the Greek’s mother is honoured at Yad Vashem, how many of his family were Nazis?

4. Swallows come to England in the summer and go to Africa in the winter. How come there are so many in Corfu right now? Do they too head south in the winter? Is this all to do with global warming? Ok that last part was a joke.

5. When does the Indian Ocean stop being the Indian Ocean? When it his Africa is it still the Indian Ocean? What about when it hits Antarctica?

6. Why are mosquitoes more attracted to some folk than others? Is it true that they are racist and prefer folks with white skins? Or do they have good taste and head for those who have drunk a lot or eaten a good meal?

7. I know that garlic is good for you. So are raw onions (as found in the Greek salads I eat each day with lemon not oil and vinegar) also good for you in any way?

8. Sean Connery played Harrison Ford’s father in Indiana Jones. Hearing that “Indy” is now 70, how much older is Scotland’s leading nationalist in the tax exile community than the man who will always attract my jealousy for getting to kiss Princess Leia?

Okay that is it for now. I am sure that more great questions will pass through my tiny mind as I head now for the beach.