Bits and Bobs

~Continually decreasing levels of play have coincided with increases in depression and anxiety among young people.

~Someone’s having a whole lot of googly eyed fun in Bulgaria.

~Several years ago my local store was out of helium when I needed balloons. I was a little shocked to hear there was a helium shortage but the issue hasn’t come up since. Apparently, it’s very real.

~Religion is for everyone who wants it.

~A soldier faints from the heat at a crucial moment during the Trooping the Colour in 1970.

~And while we’re on the subject of royalty, Princess Diana’s most iconic style moments. She wore the eighties well. Although I think a couple of outfits wore her.

~I have joked here about not buying expensive simple syrups when it’s so easy to make your own. But these from Meadowland Syrups have such gorgeous packaging and great flavours, who could resist?

~If you re-subscribed to HBO for the final season of GOT and haven’t cancelled yet, watch Gentleman Jack. Set in 1830’s Yorkshire, England it’s the extraordinary true tale of charismatic Anne Lister (played brilliantly by Suranne Jones of Doctor Foster), landowner and lesbian who refuses to even court the idea of marrying a man to keep up appearances. Instead, she bulldozes her way through society doing exactly as she pleases, which happens to include wooing the local heiress. It’s a cheeky show in which Anne struts boldly about to the accompaniment of a jaunty music score and impeccably timed glances at the camera.