After conducting our regular business and going into the break out rooms for a quick catch up with others we were joined by Paul Robbins for his presentation on ‘Great British Eccentrics’. We learned that the majority of eccentrics are men, many were aristocrats and all were completely bonkers! We heard of a man who kept a pet bear and paid voters to elect him as their MP and then resigned after hearing only 45 minutes of the debate in the Houses of Parliament. We heard about the real ’Basil Fawlty’ and of a woman who declared herself ‘Queen of the Desert’ and walled herself into her house!