For All Mankind — Series 5 Episode 9 — “Sons and Daughters” — A Review

1st September, 2026.

“Sons and Daughters”.

The Introduction.

Right at the moment, I am desperately staving off earworms.

I’ve had the theme to vintage Australian soap, Sons and Daughters, earworming its way through my head for approximately a week, now.

Because … ?

Because, right now, I’m cremating a burger for dinner: and will be making home made chips to go with it, any minute now.

There might even be vegetables, as well.

The reason I say that … ?

Is that it’s Tuesday.

So I’m going watching the next episode of For All Mankind’s fifth series, after dinner.

And, given I’ve been aware the episode’s called “Sons and Daughters”, since last week?

I’ve had an earworm.

At any rate … ?

I’ll be watching “Sons and Daughters”, tonight.

And, hopefully?

Will have my review up by this coming Friday.

Assuming the burger isn’t too crispy!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 3-9-2026 — San Marino

3rd September, 2026: San Marino.

Right, then … it’s officially Thursday … !

And Radio Four’s Today programme has been telling us they’re marking Norman Day.

In other words, they’re marking the Norman Invasion of Britain in 1066: some 960 years ago.

And covering one specific thing: the fact the millennia-old Bayeux Tapestry, the Tapestry made by the Normans to mark their success, is currently on display at the British Museum.

I doubt I’ll have the chance.

But I’d love to see that: it’s an authentic piece of history!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 2nd September 2026.

2nd September, 2026.

That’s me being silly in a video, agin … 

But all silliness aside … ?

I had the Today programme on, earlier: and caught a headline.

There’s a bill going through Parliament called the Representation of the People Bill 2026.

The headline?

Told us that the bill has its third reading, today.

It caught my eye, as one of the clauses being voted on, is a proposal to lower the voting age: from eighteen, to sixteen.

Something that would allow my fifteen year-old nephew to vote: once he hits his sixteen birthday, in December.

I hope this goes through.

I think that sooner we get the idea of youngster voter, the better.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 1st September 2026.

1st September, 2026.

It’s official: or, at least, it’s official according to the reminders we’ve had from the BBC’s weather broadcasts.

1st September is the start of meteorological autumn.

Which means … well … not a lot, to be honest.

Except that, at some point, I’m going to be forced to eat pumpkin coloured boiled sweets by people marking Halloween.

The mind boggles!

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I’ve worked up with a phrase banging around my head: and I don’t know if there’s a phrase similar to earworm that can describe the phenomenon.

An earworm, so you know, is a song or musical phrase, that’s wandering around your head.

Tupac Shakur’s “California Love”, if you were asking.

But I’ve also had the phrase ‘Interchangeable Emmas’ banging around my head.

It’s a Terry Pratchett reference, from Men at Arms: they’re the group of posh young women who work at the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons, and have obsessions with ponies and swamp dragons.

The main character, Sam Vimes … ?

Finds it incredibly hard to tell the difference between any two given Emmas.

The reason I have the phrase in my mind?

Is that I suddenly thought of one of the regulars at a pub I worked in: who was called Emma, and posh … and had a thing about Big Brother, rather than ponies or dragons.

Why her name cropped up in my head?

I really don’t know!

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 31st August 2026.

31st August, 2026.

Right: it’s a bank holiday Monday!

Which means I have the day off.

From my weight management group, rather than anything else.

Hopefully?

I’ll have lost weight by the time it restarts, next week.

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