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I recently saw, for the second time, the National Theatre production of 'Amadeus'. I say for the second time because I saw the original...
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Mark Brafield
- Feb 17, 2018
- 2 min
Learn to skate in the summer
This morning I was watching the Winter Olympics and marvelling, as I am sure we all were, at the staggering achievements of the figure...
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Mark Brafield
- Feb 12, 2018
- 2 min
Sleep your way thin
In my last post on 'Celebrity Weight Loss' (29 January 2018) I explored the relationship between weight loss and two important hormones...
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Mark Brafield
- Jan 29, 2018
- 2 min
Celebrity weight loss
All the celebrities seem to be at it - losing weight, that is. Tom Kerridge has lost 12 stone whilst Gordon Ramsay trumpets that he has...
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Mark Brafield
- Jan 13, 2018
- 2 min
So how are those resolutions going ?
Well ? How are those resolutions going ? You may have decided upon a serious target for 2018, be it losing weight, giving up smoking,...
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Mark Brafield
- Jan 1, 2018
- 2 min
Looking forward to the past
January, as every schoolboy knows, is named after Janus, the Roman god with two faces who could look forwards to the future as well as...
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Mark Brafield
- Dec 18, 2017
- 2 min
Going to the dark side
Christmas is nearly here, but first we have to get past the shortest, and darkest, day. The idea of Christmas as a light in the darkness...
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Mark Brafield
- Dec 6, 2017
- 1 min
What's a few million years between friends
The news this evening included a report about Little Foot, one of the oldest and most complete skeletons of our ancestors found in the...
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Mark Brafield
- Dec 2, 2017
- 1 min
Waiting
It's now a month until Christmas. In the church cycle of the year we are in the season of Advent, the season of waiting for Christmas....
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Mark Brafield
- Nov 26, 2017
- 1 min
Autumn leaves
It's been an unusually mild November (until now), with the result that earlier this week I was actually mowing the lawn, but before doing...
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Mark Brafield
- Nov 22, 2017
- 2 min
Still life
Christmas is on its way, and food, and pictures of food, seem to be all around. Every shop window seems stuffed with beautifully...
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Mark Brafield
- Nov 19, 2017
- 2 min
I'm a Celebrity, windows and Aeschylus
So tonight, we start again the circus of I'm a Celebrity that seems to mark, in our new calendar of the seasons, the beginning of the...
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