Dear All My old primary school uniform had a maroon blazer and the badge bore two faces, one happy and the other sad. You can see this ‘badge’ around theatres if you care to look for them. You’ll see them too on programmes and theatrical advertising hoardings etc. The faces represent tragedy and comedy. These past months have been quite dramatic, a real mixture of tragedy and comedy. It’s been interesting and quite amusing watching on TV what some folk get up to during their confinement. I’ve seen song and dance routines,......

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Dear All The familiar ‘I’ve started so I’ll finish’ were words we used to hear uttered by Magnus Magnusson, the ‘Viking Interrogator’, on Mastermind. Mastermind, the specialist TV quiz programme that could reduce grown men to tears or a quivering wreck in seconds. The only other chairs more intimidating than that ‘black one’ are the electric and dentist’s chairs. All of them designed to ‘inflict pain and suffering’. Well! it just looks that way. Getting started is easy but to keep going is much harder. Diets, learning to play a musical instrument......

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