Yes, love and respect always make it better!

Slow, calm and regulated breathing. Some people say breathing in and out of a paper bag focuses a person to calm their breathing.

Try....' What time does school finish?'

Some exercise is good at any age. It depends on how used to taking exercise you are. Walking and yoga is effective. Even when sitting in a chair, moving each limb in turn and making small circular movements with the wrists and ankles has an effect. If you have limited mobility it is always important to move the legs at regular intervals to encourage good blood circulation.

It is a fact that the service industry in the UK would collapse if it relied on the indigenous population for man/woman power.

I am astonished to read that! What do people do for protection against the rain??? I'm glad I don't live there, it would play havoc with my hair!

I think what is happening now is the beginning of worse with 'more worse' to come. I wish I could believe otherwise.

"putting Gays on"......... putting gays on what??!? Homophobia is discrimination against one group of people. It is abhorrent and in many situations it is illegal.

There are 6-8 holes in a standard horseshoe but all eight are usually not used.

When Louis XIII (1601-1643) went premmaturely bald, he took to wearing a wig. During the reign of  The Sun King (LouisXIV) wigs were almost obligatory for all European nobility and 'persons of quality'. At this time in the UK they were known as 'periwigs' shortened to wig by 1675. Wigs were very expensive to buy and look after, they were the preserve of the powerful and wealthy. In Bourbon France ostentation was the order of the day and over time wigs became bigger even to the point of absurdity where scaffolding was required. Not difficult to see how the term big-wig (bigwig) grew to to refer to rich and powerful.

The first record (in print) that makes explicit use of the term in relation to the UK judiciary comes from G. Selwyn's 1781 Letters in 15th Rep. Hist.MSS. Commission where he writes:

"A new point of discussion for the lawyers, for our big wigs, for their Lordships."

(Found with the help of Phrase Finder!)