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With four deaths in less than two weeks I think the existence of the enema and its intentions are undeniable Stock up on your toilet roll ! The enema means business! Doubting Thomas's be prepared for a stinky bum!!

I actually have started back on the bran flakes in the past fortnight strangely enough after being more of a Weetaflakes guy for many months!!

It pays to keep the faith!

On this day in 1996 american rapper Tupac Shakur (2Pac) was shot dead in a drive by homicide in Las Vegas aged 25.

Arrgh Sorry @MariNisia we pretty much both posted about Jacqueline Bisset at the same time!

British actress Jacqueline Bisset celebrates turning 78 today. She has starred in numerous films including Murder on the Orient Express, The Man from Acapulco and The Deep.

Bertie Ahern Former Prime Minister of Ireland turns 71 today.

This post is sort of the opposite to Ideas and possibilities for 2023. 90 year old Lord Wakeham was at King Charles proclamation ceremony in St James Palace on Saturday as all previous Leaders of the House of Commons were invited. So he managed to attend and reportedly looked well.

No thats not what I mean. Well there is abit of a difference between 82 and 96!! Besides maybe it worked in reverse here and it was a desire to reach the platinum jubilee that helped keep the Queen going as long as she did.

If Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands hadn't abdicated we would now have two Queens but Margrethe now about to celebrate her golden jubilee of fifty years on the throne may get a psychological and emotional boost from reaching that milestone that will keep hee going a bit longer as well as determination to maybe fight and battle on knowing she is the last Queen standing!

Oh?

Hasn't the King of Sweden had some significant health problems though? I don't like the thought of a world without any Queens!

On this day exactly 10 years ago in 2012 , British tabloid journalist and broadcaster Derek Jameson died aged 82.

Well in reality Princess Alexandras engagements do not get much if any mainstream media coverage but the Jubilee service was an incredible focal point for media attention and not just in the UK. So I don't think the same wish to ' hide frailty ' works apply in quite the same way in my opinion.

American actress Linda Gray , best known for playing Sue Ellen Ewing in legendary US Primetime soap Dallas, celebrates her 82nd birthday today.

Jon Moss , drummer with new wave 1980s British band Culture Club celebrates his 65th birthday today.

On this day twenty years ago in 2002, Oscar winning american actress Kim Hunter died aged 79. Her first foray into film acting was in horror film noir, her first role was in 1943 film The Seventh victim . As a film about an underground cult of devil worshipers it tested the boundaries of society and film codes at the time and did not perform well at the box office. Later film credits include Bermuda Affair (1956) alongside Gary Merrill, British film A Canterbury tale (1944) co-starring with Eric Portman, Sheila Fim and Dennis Price and 1987 horror film The Kindred with Rod Steiger. But undoubtedly her place in Hollywoods history books was secured by her best supporting actress Oscar for the role of Stella in the legendary 1951 film A Streetcar named desire whose lead cast was Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh. But I suspect for the average cinema goer it will be the role of Dr Zira in the three Planet of the apes movies- a firm favourite among fans of science fiction , that she will best known for. In the 1950s she was blacklisted in Hollywood for suspected communism during the McCarthy witchhunt. Kim was however one of the luckier actors whose career did recover to some extent with the support of friends in the industry. Latterly in her career she also won a Daytime Emmy award for her work on soap opera The Edge of the night. Her husband of fifty years Robert died two years before her.

American actor Tyler Hoechlin, currently playing Superman in US TV Series Superman and Lois but probably best known for starring in hit US series Teen Wolf between 2011-2017, celebrates his 35th birthday today.

Queen Paola of Belgium, who was Queen of Belgium from 1993 until her husband abdicated in 2013, celebrates her 85th birthday today.

21 again?! Your 50th? Or are you too shy and coy to say?!

Oh right that might explain it or now I think about it The Duchess of Gloucester is the only spouse who is actually a working royal. Princess Michael never was and The Duchess of Kent hasn't since around 2001. Still no Queens cousin Princess Alexandra who also exited and entered the Jubilee service in June via side doors for mobility ease so as well maybe to minimise presumably opportunities to be photographed struggling. Princess Alexandras absence may actually be the most significant absence as she would have been invited.

Typo -I'm not trying to signify anything!

But only the Duke of Gloucester had his spouse with him it appears. No Duchess of Kent or Princess Michael of Kent . Whether we can read anything into that I don't know.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11199605/Queens-extended-royal-family-attends-King-Charles-IIIs-proclamation.html The Duke of Kent and some of the Queens other cousins seen for the first time since she died.They were attending King Charles proclamation.

On this day in 2007 Anita Roddick, British businesswoman, founder of The Body Shop and environmental campaigner died from a brain haemorrhage aged 65.