What's got my attention this week

Things to read, watch and listen to this weekend

I've struggled to find a news image that doesn't feature Donald Trump or Boris Johnson this week, and nobody needs that in their inbox on Friday morning! So here are Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu (combined age 131) playing baddies in superhero movie, Shazam

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• Helen Mirren on having a ball kicking ass on screen (Abre numa nova janela).
• The subversive wisdom of old wives' tales. (Abre numa nova janela)
• It's 50 years since women were first allowed on the trading floor. (Abre numa nova janela) Some trailblazers look back. (£)
• It's time to say it: bubble baths will not beat burnout! (Abre numa nova janela)
• Courteney Cox on losing sight of what she looked like and having her fillers dissolved (Abre numa nova janela).
• Are you entering your mother-in-law era? (Abre numa nova janela)
• In the spirit of the clocks going forward, the evenings getting lighter and learning to grow, I loved this piece about what we learn from leafing through seed catalogues (Abre numa nova janela).