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The Rocky Horror Show at the New Theatre
I was wondering what the energy would be like for Rocky Horror on the Tuesday after a bank holiday weekend. Would the audience be tired and recovering – not yet eager to do The Time Warp? Oxford, how could I have doubted you? It’s a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl; boy and girl get beckoned into a spooky castle; boy and girl get seduced by a cross-dressing Transylvanian. Connor Carson plays the Buddy Holly look-alike Brad Majors with Lauren Chia playing the doe-eyed Janet Weiss, both of whose talent brought to life the tale of a white-picketed dream torn to shreds. By
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The Urban Dictionary defines ‘funsies’ as doing something for the fun of it, for good times, and we firmly believe that fun is something which should be prioritised whenever feasible. In terms of wellbeing, the benefits of funsies are widely recognised in terms of stress management,
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De Vere Cotswold Water Park
Set among the honey-coloured villages and rolling hills of The Cotswolds, De Vere Cotswold Water Park is a hotel as spectacular as its surroundings. In the heart of the 152 lakes that spread across the unique Cotswold Water Park, this is a place
