Jon Tickle Dines Out At Strok’s Restaurant

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He is one of only a handful of contestants who rose again, to fill our screens in his own right when he became a presenter on the popular science programme Brainiac. He is the contestant with more websites dedicated to him than any other, his face is on T-shirts and he does a number of “Things that make you go Ooh”. Yet, throughout this Jon Tickle has turned up at work as Information Architect, for British Gas at Centrica. He is the ordinary man’s celebrity.

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The Astral Caravan

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On the great journey through the forest, we stopped awhile, and there spied, in the most wondrous glade, the stall of Essence…..messrs Arden and How….. “purveyors of fine spices” read the curlicue sign…..but i wondered what essence they’d sell….. happiness….. excitement?

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Monica Ward keeps Bez and Domino Bones from toppling

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“Stand up Windsor!” shouted Bez as he began ranting like a pill-popping preacher. At the same time Ward was using that instrument of hers to great effect, splicing together the songs in a chaotic rollercoaster ride of an arrangement.

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A life in the Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor

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“When I arrived I was the youngest in the choir by some way, and the only one born in the 80’s. Four of the choir, three of the basses and one alto, had been in the choir longer than I had been alive.”

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Forgotten Treasurable Pleasurables

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Music. There’s a lot of it about isn’t there? On the telly, on the radio, on the internet, in our heads, memories and hearts. Some of it is big and ugly and some of it’s small and beautifully formed; some of it loud and pompous, some of it quiet and reserved. Some of it prevails but, sadly, most of it is forgotten. So come on, let’s all sit down, stop watching that pointless rubbish over there and hear it for the treasurable pleasurables.

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Age, death, revenge – and Kenny Rogers

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When I was younger, I’d hear all the old people come out with the most extraordinary things – things you aren’t meant even to think these days, much less come out with in polite company. But actually, I’m beginning to see the point of it now. Beginning to see the attraction, as it were.

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