Solace?

 In today's Guardian...

Artemis II Advertising?

 As Space Junkies, we have obviously been glued to our screens and radios for the latest information about the Artemis II trip around the moon.

And we enjoyed yesterday's Guardian Prize crossword on a similar theme.

We do worry, however, about the advertising.

First a jar of Nutella flies weightlessly across the capsule on camera - to the joy, doubtless, of the Nutella advertising department.

And then there was this advert for Tunnock's Teacakes:

(Many thanks to one of our sons for pointing this out...)

Gilbert and Sullivan Goes Wrong.

 So to the ENO for Pinafore last February.  A warship of a show, hard to mess up. 

But for us, they kinda managed to.

Mel Giedroyc - who we at the Trees normally like, as a rule - was a 'special guest star', and she kept on popping up as a meta-guest, who was chaotically interfering with a show of the Pinafore.  Rather like a second rate version of The Play That Goes Wrong - where the play is a G&S performance.  Her style of clowning clashed with much of the rest of the comedy in the show, and the whole thing was rather scrappy.

Disappointing.

More Shows

So we booked four shows.

Indian Ink in Hampstead

HMS Pinafore at the ENO

Into the Woods at the Bridge theatre

Arcadia at the Old Vic.

...results were mixed...