Seven prompts or five questions

Comment to this post, and I will list seven things I want you to talk about. They might make sense or they might be totally random. Then post that list, with your commentary, to your journal. Other people can get lists from you, and the meme merrily perpetuates itself.

Please bear in mind that it has taken me four months to reply to huskyteer's fun prompts. Alternatively, if you prefer, I'd be happy to ask five questions (in the style of the old journal interview routine that rolls around every few years) rather than to provide seven prompts; please let me know either way.

( Pottermore, pandas, cats, adulthood, cars, weather and entertainment. )

Meg and I had a more active weekend than usual this weekend past, in part because we've long had lots of "oh, we'll do that this summer" plans and finally this has been a weekend with passable weather where I've not been at work.( Moonrise Kingdom and American Football. )

My favourite news story that I've seen recently is this one about bookmakers quoting odds on long-term and niche, or even personal, markets; the most common example comes about when parents want to bet on their child growing up to play for England, or pass their exams with perfect grades, or so forth. ( Discussion of betting on long shots, including Doctor Who, the longest shot of them all. )