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THE Tatton Park Country Fair is being held over the weekend of 23-25 August at Tatton Park, and this year the fair has more attractions than ever. Event organiser Living Heritage has teamed up with the Stockport Express to give away 10 family tickets for the show.
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MILES Skinner
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My New Year's resolution
Miles Skinner27/12/2006
IF YOU have the good fortune to be a goose, people appreciate a pleasant plumpness in your person at Christmas.
They'll even sing songs about you.
But no one likes a fat reporter (with the possible exception of the corpulent fellows of Truffle Times).
So no more.
No more black pudding to fuel my tubby little fingers as they tap away. No more Red Bull to invest my bloated body with enough energy to lift a phone...and no more my reign as the portly Prince of Pies.
In empathy with every other well-intentioned Stopfordian of a certain carriage, I shall be forging a healthier, and I am told happier, life in the New Year.
With the help of Virgin Active (formerly Holmes Place) and Hypnoworks, I am to be trained and tranced from a 15-stone man mountain, or hillock, to triangular temple of all things wholesome.
Stockport Express readers will also be able to follow with horror or hilarity the growing list of colleagues and family members I alienate en route to giving up smoking - finally.
It will be the first use of Resolve that hasn't come from a sachet the morning after.
So, gym sessions and hypnotherapy to aid me, there will be a column based around the hopefully ever-decreasing circle of my waistline. As various tortures and tips are thrown by those who would make a new man of me, you can either read as a point of sadistic satisfaction over a very large cream cake, or jump on the self-bettering gravy train...or rather gravy-train-lite, as I'm sure it will have to be.
Sink or swim, troff or train...watch this space.
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