With temperatures forecast to reach the mid twenties this week, it seems that we are back in summer mode. For a few days we’ve had rather thin sunshine, cool winds and decidedly chilly evenings. But maybe we can get back into shorts and t-shirts or floaty summer dresses. It is August after all!
With that in mind, here are a couple of summer-related cartoons:
In the days before the kindle made summer reading more portable our son used to sacrifice clothing in favour of books when packing to go on holiday. But then, he is a proper reader, not one of those who only read when they go on holiday.
Granddaughters Number One and Number Two are both readers, especially Granddaughter Number Two, who is a compulsive buyer of books, a great fan of second book shops. She recently expressed a wish to move in and live in one we discovered in Whitehaven! As a rule though they tend to read books that fend to be spin-offs from Tv series, fan-fiction and that sort of thing. This week though we were involved in a three-way discussion in our family chat about Jessie Burton’s novel “The Miniaturist”. Quite impressive!
Here’s a link to an article about young adults buying Pokémon cards and Lego sets, not as presents for younger siblings but out of nostalgia for their own fairly recent childhood.
I can’t think of a toy I might feel so nostalgic about that I would want to buy a new one now. And I don’t think the bubble gum with photo cards of pop singers that my friends and I collected back in the day is still on sale now. At the age of 10 I had picture cards of American singers I had not really heard of and whose records I had never heard as we did not have television and my parents didn’t listen to that kind of radio programme!
Granddaughter Number One is part of nostalgia-toy trend without having gone to the trouble of re-purchasing stuff. Doing some sorting of her belongings, she found her old Tamagotchi digital pets and revived them. So for the last few weeks she has been carrying them around with her and keeping track of their “needs”. This is what young adults do for fun apparently!
On the subject of nostalgia, here is a link to an article about the chocolate bar called the Freddo, a small chocolate bar depicting a frog. The daughter of the creator laments the increase in price of this chocolate bar. But almost anything that cost 10 pence in the 1990s will inevitable cost a good deal more nowadays.
Somehow we ended up discussing this sort of thing the other day in conversation with my daughter and the aforementioned older granddaughters. The item in question was the Jubbly, often referred to as a “Lubbly Jubbly”, a tetrahedron - 4 sided carton of orange juice, never to my knowledge simply drunk but frozen. You then cut off the top and gradually pushed up the orange flavoured ice, gradually sucking the juice out until all you had left was ice! In the 1969s they cost three pence, three OLD pence! And as our local corner shop didn’t sell them, we had to walk the best part of a mile to a shop which stocked them! Those were the days.
That’s enough nostalgia. On a more serious note, here's a headline from today’s newspapers:
Anyone showing support for Palestine Action 'will feel the full force of the law', justice minister says.
And here is a relevant cartoon:
Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!
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