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How To Stop Time by Matt Haig
This fantasy/adven- ture story, to be made into a lm starring Benedict Cumber- batch, centres on Tom Hazard, a man who
is more than 400
years old - an “albatross” who ages at an incredibly slow rate and has sworn not to fall in love with a normal “may y” human. Trapped in the past as he mourns his centuries-old rst love, Rose, Hazard meets Camille, who sparks a process of self-discovery in which he questions what it is to really live. Now a humble secondary school history teacher, Hazard re ects on his time as a lute player recruited by Shakespeare to play in the
Framed 2, £4.99.
In this frame-by-frame world, your mission is to shu e around a comic book spy’s a empts to es- cape, swapping scenes to avoid pitfalls, sneaking be- hind guards and sna ing useful props, remaking each stage of the styl-
ish shenanigans on the y. Alongside the main character’s escapade,
Framed
2 also
features
a parallel
story to
make good,
starring a
spy tracking
the spy. Es-
sentially this just adds some narrative
be close together in age, endangers the most basic
watching the awesome chap wearing a lanyard
Let’s Act school trials
The Doncaster school, based on Cook Street in Bentley, is o ering two weeks of free trials, so that your child can try out di erent classes and see if they would like to become part of the Lets Act gang in September. The trials kicked o on July 2 and will run until July 23. Fees for the drama school start
at £22 per month and classes run every day of the week, except for Sundays.
Email info@letsactdramaclasses. co.uk to book your free trial.
Amped Up Music Academy
Amped Up Music Academy teaches both children and adults how
to play the guitar, drums, piano, keyboards, bass, and how to sing. The academy, based on Nelson Street, is o ering free trial
lessons on all their instruments throughout the summer holidays, for children and adults alike. The free sessions, with expert tutors in a professional studio, kicks o next week on July 21 and will run until September 4. Call 01302 288422 to book.
Greentop Circus Minis
Try your hand at everything circus at this session in She eld on Sunday.
She eld Fes val of Fun
The festival launches in the Moor Market this Saturday, from 10am to 4pm.
Family Bu er y Trails
Join She eld Manor Lodge rangers to hunt bees and bu er ies this Saturday.
Jungle Book
Cast in Doncaster is hosting a spectacular street-dance and breath-taking circus combination, as Kipling’s classic tale crashes into the 21st century. Mowgli nds her way in the urban jungle, with
a beat-boxing bin man Baloo, gra ti artist Bagheera and a skateboarding Wolf crew. This heart-warming coming of age story will astonish and amaze and delight the whole family.
The show opened yesterday and will run until Saturday.
Mess Around Party!
Roll up, roll up! Pack your buckets and spades, because all the fun of the seaside will be in Mosborough this Saturday.
Mess Around South York- shire will feature all the messy classics, including hook-a- duck, goldfish jelly and ice cream, cereal bumper cars, funfair rice, ferris wheel foam and mushy pea castles. Plus, of course, lots of sand and water! So come mess around - and leave the cleaning!
variety, but the innovative mechanic is still as appeal- ing as before and though there are occasions of trial and error, the panel puzzling does reward careful concentration and solutions deliver both sat- isfaction and amusement. Framed 2 is a lighthearted caper but there’s nothing careless about the charm- ing visuals, highly re ned presentation and winsome gameplay.
Skip to the end: Stylish, entertaining narrative puzzler
“When’s the next Try harder
Globe, crew member on Captain Cook’s voyage, and jazz pianist bump-
ing elbows with F. Sco Fitzgerald in a boozed up corner of Paris. This is a refreshing exploration of how to make peace with one’s past selves and fu- ture possibilities in a world where moments seem to
8ver.
my house at 3am when stopping once.
knowing when we’re My brief rebellion
rush past faster than e
Our ra ng: (out of 10)
lled with worries I felt served me countless
to the beginning and start Michaela) leaves me cold.
one?” None of at human
your business! rT“ela onships
around communicate
cradling dropped into my
the lovely
as well as their
have been favourite shop
weather and forebears do.
exchanged - the one where
the delicious I share her
for eating everything costs the
She’s a beauty,” and a traumatic birth, here are more steer me away from future
the lady next followed by 18 months people on this visits to her counter,
burgers. I’d concerns, especially
dinner and same - only to nd they
prefer that’s
as I am someone who
ge ing lost in had done away with most of
where it stayed.
really has to work hard at
boxsets with my the manned tills, replacing
“Ah not just
pu ing the phone away
husband.
them with the automated
yet,” I shrug non- when spending ‘quality
And instead of equivalent. While I don’t
commitally.
time’ with my kids. But
running along behind her have a problem with self
“You don’t want to it isn’t just social media
unsteady steps on wobbly service checkouts, I do
leave it too long,” she which is in danger of us
legs today, I’m si ing want to be given the choice
clucks.
holding us back as the
here in the sunshine, and I do object to ,being
“It’s lovely for them to advance of all technology
eating my burger and patronised by a young
and you want to be young of human instincts.
kid I’ve made play happily who cheerily a empted
enough to run around In one of my rare lunch
and independently.
to guide me away from the
with them, don’t you?” breaks last week I took
We’re doing a lovely only human cashier on
‘Do I?’ I think, with an advantage of the sunshine
job with her, if I do say duty.
inward sigh. I wonder if and went for a brief walk to
so myself. She’s kind, Naturally, I declined
this stranger, who seems my bank, very proud of the
polite, thoughtful, clever and she seemed genuinely
perfectly at ease probing willpower I demonstrated
and funny. So why isn’t delighted that a customer
into my personal life, is by walking by both a Greggs
that enough? Why are opted for eeting human
going to come around to and a chippy, without
people so obsessed with contact.
I’m exhausted by all night The reason for going to
going to be starting the against progress came in
feeds and colic with this the bank was to transfer
whole crazy thing all
the same week we learned
second child she’s so keen some cash to a chap
over again? Can’t you just that sex robots, designed
I have. I remember that who has just completed
satisfy yourself that we’ve for the lonely and the
rst year of parenthood work at Tapp Towers.
already contributed one elderly are currently
all too well; the most Pleasantly surprised
awesome li le person to under development,
exciting and rewarding nottoseetoomuchofa
the planet? And she’s just I am not sure about you
time of my life, no doubt, queue, I was quickly seen
three years old, she isn’t but the prospect of ge ing
but also di cult to
by a very nice member
nished yet, and I don’t up close and personal
navigate, exhausting, and of sta , a lady who has
feel any desire to go back with Metal Mickey (or
completely ill-equipped times in the past.
all over again just now. There are enough of us
to handle. A er nine
But before she carried
We’re a family of three on the planet so perhaps
months of giving my out my request, she
and perfectly happy. we try a li le harder at
body over to pregnancy valiantly a empted to
Thanks for your interest. human relationships.
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Family of 3 Life on Tapp
By Nik Farah with Blaise Tapp
to me smiles, of breastfeeding, I’m planet than which actually resembles
as we watch currently enjoying my
at anytime in one of those podiums they
my three-year- body serving a purpose its history, yet used on the classic 1980s
old running and giggling other than producing,
it appears that we are daytime quiz show Going
around the garden in the housing and nourishing
determined to reduce
for Gold. Her argument,
sunshine.
the amount of contact we
a small person - thanks which despite my polite
I couldn’t agree more. have with one another.
very much and if it’s all protests was made several
Sometimes my heart Millions of words
the same to you. I’ve times, was that an app
literally aches with have already been
nally relegated those on my mobile would save
love for this funny li le wri en about how the
‘comfy’ breastfeeding me time. My feeble, but
character I helped to unstoppable rise of social
bras to the back of honest, answer surprised
create.
media means that society
my drawer in favour even me.“I want to get out
But even as her
runs the risk of creating
of underwear that is
of the o ce and speak to
compliment hangs in future generations that
altogether more lacy and somebody”, is something I
the air, I brace myself for are unable of forming
appealing; my husband is would expect somebody’s
the question I know is proper relationships.
thrilled and so am I. gran to say but it is how
coming next.
In an increasingly
A er months of I feel.
“So...” she begins, rare foray away from the
middle of the night feeds Even though I am a
right on cue. “...when is dynamic world of Radio
- precious as they were, one man technological
the next one coming?” One (not my station of
examining every sleepy disaster zone I am not
I grit my teeth and choice) the other week, I
eyelash in wonder - 4am afraid of progress and do
smile. I’ve known this heard a very clever lady give
starts to the day and baby perform basic banking
woman for all of ten
a 30 minute radio lecture
sick nightly all over my functions online but there
minutes. We’re sat
as to why smartphones and
bed sheets, I’m relishing are some things which I
next to one another at a the likes of Facebook could
the fact my li le girl believe are too important
mutual friend’s BBQ lead to an evolutionary
now sleeps for 12
to do on a smartphone.
and, so far, our blip, meaning that
solid hours, and My mood didn’t
conversation youngsters might
evenings of improvewhen,not
has revolved well struggle to
nursing and long a erwards, I