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Angel Place in the early 1950s, this lady is heading into town, shopping basket in hand You might chat to the shopkeeper or one of your neighbours, while an assistant gathered the items on your list on your behalf, weighing out a pound of this and a quarter of that, and wrapping them all up in paper bags and newspaper, before placing them in your basket to carry home. It’s easy to forget that supermarkets haven’t always been a fixture of our towns and cities. Although the first self-service shops arrived in the UK during the late 1940s, it took a while for them to gain in popularity.
Image zoom Find children’s media featuring every kind of family.
It s easy to normalize nontraditional families through picture books and TV shows so that when your kids do come across different kinds of families in real life, it s not weird at all, says Kiaundra Jackson, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles. She suggests the book
My Family, Your Family, by Lisa Bullard, about a little girl named Makayla who goes through the neighborhood looking for something great about the variety of families she encounters. Or try the film
Despicable Me, a goofy farce about a supervillain who grows close to three girls from an adoption agency. (Spoiler: He becomes dad to all three.) Parr, whose books like
“Well, it’s wonderful!” Mark Gatiss beams, when asked by
RadioTimes.com how it feels to have written an honest-to-goodness Doctor Who Target novelisation.
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“I mean, obviously, I did four of them [Doctor Who novels] years ago, but they weren’t Targets, were they? They were New Adventures [original novels put out by Virgin Publishing between 1991 and 1997], and then BBC Books… but this is is a
Target book – it looks like one! It’s amazing.
“I mean, even to have those things, like ‘The Changing Face of Doctor Who’ [a blurb printed on the first page of Target novels, identifying which Doctor was featured in the book], and I think I smuggled in a little asterisk – ‘see Doctor Who: The Snowmen’ or something like that. It makes me very happy indeed to have those in.
AS PART of the events celebrating the 500
th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the world, Instituto Cervantes de Manila, the cultural arm of the Embassy of Spain, will hold the online debate “Magellan vs. Elcano” on Mar. 10, 6 p.m. The debate will seek to weigh their achievements for this endeavor, and try to establish who should deserve more credit for the final success. Magellan led the expedition from its beginning in Spain, around South America, and across the Pacific Ocean until his death in the Philippines. Meanwhile, Elcano took over and led the remaining ship and crew back to Spain, circumnavigating the world in the process. At the debate, Filipino historian Danilo Gerona will advocate for Magellan while Tomás Mazon will campaign for Elcano. Admission is free and open to all on a first come, first served basis. The link to access the event is