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- Mar 14, 2022
- 4 min
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Theatrical Review The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, Adapted and Directed by Hedda Bird, Oxford Theatre...
- Dec 16, 2021
- 3 min
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks In 1974, five years after directing the widely adored Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American filmmaker George Roy...
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Radiologists
https://twitter.com/dglaucomflecken/status/1457421782995005445?s=21
- Jan 7, 2021
- 1 min
The End of Publius Clodius Pulcher
"The fountain of smoke and dust and ashes lingered above the centre of Rome in a pall for several days, until the rain washed it away;...
- Nov 11, 2020
- 1 min
Farewell, thou little Nook of mountain ground
Farewell, thou little Nook of mountain ground, Thou rocky corner in the lowest stair Of Fairfield’s mighty Temple that doth bound One...
- May 1, 2020
- 1 min
Night Sweat
By Robert Lowell Work-table, litter, books and standing lamp, plain things, my stalled equipment, the old broom--- but I am living in a...
- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
COVID-19 Lung - for Medics only
Not to be read if not medically qualified or of a nervous disposition This is going the rounds: https://youtu.be/zL6iQVFXayk The...
- Apr 4, 2020
- 1 min
Glistring with dew, nor fragrance after showers
Eve to Adam: With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her...
- Mar 28, 2020
- 2 min
My Mind to me a Kingdom is
by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find That it excels all other bliss That...
- Mar 22, 2020
- 1 min
Pandemic Times
Welcome to the first of my pandemic blogs. We hope you are all keeping safe, and thoughts are with those brave young doctors and...
- Mar 18, 2019
- 7 min
25 commandments
Tim Radford's thoughts on journalism 1. When you sit down to write, there is only one important person in your life. This is someone you...
- Mar 18, 2019
- 1 min
BLEST pair of Sirens
ohn Milton. 1608–1674 At a Solemn Musick BLEST pair of Sirens, pledges of Heav'ns joy, Sphear-born harmonious Sisters, Voice, and Vers,...
- Mar 18, 2019
- 1 min
ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY
TIS the year's midnight, and it is the day's, Lucy's, who scarce seven hours herself unmasks ; The sun is spent, and now his flasks Send...
- Mar 6, 2019
- 1 min
From Byron Childe Harold’s
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea,...
- Feb 24, 2019
- 4 min
Mentor
Harry Eyres on Tennis What is it that gives mentoring its particular force and makes it different from teaching or training? I suppose...
- Feb 24, 2019
- 1 min
Modern Times
“Yet our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Compared with the perils which our...
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