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Our First Years' parents enjoying lunch in Hall as they collect their sons and daughters at the end of Lent Term.
"gratitude is not only the gratest of virtues, but the parent of all others." Cicero (106-43 BCE)
Photo by our friend Juan
My parents stopped by this morning on their way to town for their weekly shopping. Dad is in his early 80's and Mom is in her upper 70's. They celebrated their 60th anniversary yesterday.
Pied Wagtail with food for the brood. Sorry if I'm getting boring with another image of this busy parent but I'm very fond of it. Motacilla alba.
Ruby Wax was born 19th April, 1953, Ruby Wachs in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of Jewish parents who left Austria in 1939 because of the Nazi threat. She later majored in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ruby Wax said I couldn't stand being a nobody. America put too much value on being tall and blonde. So I used laughter to make people take notice.
Ruby Wax came to England in 1977 and Ive been grateful ever since. (OK so I wasnt even born then but I make up for it now!)
Ruby always wanted to be famous, so decided to become an actress. She didn't get in to RADA but was awarded a place at the Scottish equivalent, before later joining the Royal Shakespeare Company alongside Helen Mirren, getting all the wench parts.
I really could never find my niche. I was a terrible actress, I couldn't sing, I couldn't do characters, I couldn't do an English accent and I lived in England, so I was narrowing it down'
She started off writing for Not the Nine O Clock News.
She met French and Saunders at a party and worked alongside them a number of times, on television in Happy Families, at charity events such as Hysteria and notably the sitcom Girls on Top. Apparently meant to be a kind of female Young Ones, French, Saunders and Wax all co-starred and co-wrote this ITV series. Ruby played Shelley Dupont, a stereotypically loud American dying for a career in show business. Not a huge hit, Girls on Top nevertheless gave the trio the chance to find their feet in comedy.
Ruby eventually got a chat show after drunkenly interviewing Michael Grade (who was head of Channel 4 at the time) in a tent at the Edinburgh festival. She subsequently made a range of programmes (most featuring her name in the title!) but as I have only seen a selection I can only write about the ones I know
In the 1988 show Ruby's Celebrity Bash, Ruby 'interviewed' stars including Joanna Lumley, Patricia Hodge and Felicity Kendall. More staged and rehearsed than Rubys more recent interviews, they included acted bits and prepared one-liners to the cameras. But although the interviews are set up they are still hilarious. Ruby breaks into Joanna Lumley's house - smashing windows and then hiding behind her sofas!! She gets thrown out but returns later with a ladder and calls up into the window, before climbing up and breaking in again. Joanna Lumley's character is very much a premonition of Patsy, who ends up in a mental institution and has cupboards filled with alcohol! The show was very much pre-Abfab, and an early and unusual role for Joanna in comedy at the time. Ruby Wax later became the script editor for Absolutely Fabulous, coming up with many of the one-liners.
In 1992 Ruby did a stand-up comedy show at the Wimbledon Theatre, now available on video as Wax Acts. Written by Ruby, it consists of amusing monologue and observational comedy. Her description of childbirth is almost enough to put you off for life, pain-wise she says, 'it's like sitting on the Eiffel tower and spinning' - ouch indeed!
Ruby's Health Quest (1995) followed Ruby as she went in search of alternative medicines, advice and treatments in aid of seeking perfect health. Several years ago she took a BBC director's course, people will get sick of me and my ego will have to be removed, but I'd still like to express my view of the world.
Ruby Wax has experienced episodes of depression for most of her life, but it wasn't until she finally checked into a clinic, that she realised how widespread mental health problems are: "It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse."
Divorce twice and is currently married to television producer and director Ed Bye, who produces some of the series of her long time friends and working partners, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Wax and Bye have three children together, daughters Marina and Madeline, and one son, Max.
a picture of a picture of my parents after they got married in the 70s. my dad said he cut his hair for the wedding, hahha!
An informal parents' evening was held in Arbroath Academy in November, 1996 by the Friends of the Academy. In the picture, taken in the music department, were, from left - Caira Warden, Corrie Bell, Jody Robb, David Hall, principal teacher of music; Lynn Taylor, Deborah McDonald, parent; David Cargill, Paul Meighan, depute rector; Anna Hainsworth, Ross Fairweather and Rory Napier, parent.
fubo means "father and mother" in Japanese. My mom decided she needed to teach my dad how to brush his teeth.
Penguins make excellent parents, even in space. 🐧
This new Webb image shows two galaxies: a Penguin (NGC 2936) guarding an Egg (NGC 2937). Webb’s observations reveal the two are in a cosmic hug, joined together by a blue haze of stars and gas.
We’re shaped by those closest to us, and this pair is no different. The galaxies have been merging for tens of millions of years, and will eventually become one. In fact, only about 100,000 light-years separate the Penguin and the Egg. (To compare, our Milky Way and its neighboring Andromeda Galaxy are about 2.5 million light-years apart!)
Two years ago, we revealed Webb’s first images to the world. Since then, it has discovered the most distant known galaxy, opened a new window into the atmospheres of other worlds, and provided unparalleled insight into the birth of stars and planets. We can’t wait to see how Webb will guide the next generation of explorers.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/3Wit09B
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Image description: Arp 142, two interacting galaxies, observed in near- and mid-infrared light. At left is NGC 2937, nicknamed the Egg. Its center is the brighter and whiter. There are six diffraction spikes atop its gauzy blue layers. At right is NGC 2936, nicknamed the Penguin. Its beak-like region points toward and above the Egg. Where the eye would be is a small, opaque yellow spiral. The Penguin’s distorted arms form the bird’s beak, back, and tail. The tail is wide and layered, like a beta fish’s tail. A semi-transparent blue hue traces the Penguin and extends from the galaxy, creating an upside-down U over top of both galaxies. At top right is another galaxy seen from the side, pointing roughly at a 45-degree angle. It is largely light blue. Its length appears approximately as long as the Egg’s height. One foreground star with large, bright blue diffraction spikes appears over top of the galaxy and another near it. The entire black background is filled with tiny, extremely distant galaxies.
Forum 2014: Idea Factory: A new Age: Ageing is a major social, economic, political and development issue for the 21st century. Today, there are over 900 million people in the world over the age of 60. By 2050, that number will have grown to 2.4 billion, and a very large proportion of the world’s population over 60 will be living in developing countries. Inequality in income, wealth, and health may result in growing numbers of older people finding themselves in poverty. Many countries are building contributory pension systems, while large numbers of unemployed young people cannot contribute and will be at risk of poverty when they age.
Speakers
John Beard, Director, Ageing and Life Course Programme, World Health Organization
Ken Bluestone, Influencing and Advocacy Manager, Age International
Daniela Bobeva, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Development, Republic of Bulgaria
Francesca Colombo, Senior Health Policy Analyst, OECD
Ricardo Ibarra, President, Spanish Youth Council (CJE)
Thomas Jelley, Director, Sodexo Institute for Quality of Life
Marie-Louise Knuppert, Vice President, TUAC; Elected Confederal Secretary, Danish Confederation of Trade Unions (LO-DK)
Juan Lozano Tovar, Secretary General, Inter-American Conference on Social Security (CISS)
Niku Määttänen, Research supervisor, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
Anne-Sophie Parent, Secretary-General, AGE Platform
Jacques Séguéla, Business Person and Author, BLEU
Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Bruce Stokes, Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center
Lorraine K. Tyler, Head, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain; Head, Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience, United Kingdom
Yukako Uchinaga, Board Chair, Japan Women’s Innovative Network (J-Win)
Fabian Zuleeg, Chief Executive & Chief Economist, European Policy Centre
For more information about this session, visit: www.oecd.org/forum/programme/sessions/anewage/oecdforum20...