Music to start a marriage

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At St Helen’s Church this morning, the organist was demonstrating music, for use during a church marriage ceremony, to a group of people soon to be married.

I was sitting in The Lady Chapel during this piece, intended for the end of the marriage ceremony. This is where the bridge and groom walk arm in arm, smiling this way and that at friends and family, then out of the church for some photographs, followed by a reception.

It is the start of a marriage. There may be some trouble ahead but where there is love and romance and adventure the music can keep on playing. Happy Valentine’s Day on Monday.

New earth fusion energy record

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It was announced two days ago that the JET tokamak, at Culham near Abingdon, produced two and a half times the amount of fusion energy obtained during a previous trial in 1997. It provides test evidence that the more advanced tokamak, called ITER, being built in the South of France, is worthwhile.

JET’s tokamak reactor has atoms of deuterium and tritium at the center. These isotopes of hydrogen (having one and two additional neutrons respectively), are heated to temperatures (10 x the Sun’s centre) to fuse them into helium atoms. This reaction releases a huge amount of energy.

There is more information with videos at https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/fusion-energy-record-demonstrates-powerplant-future/.

The picture from Abingdon Museum has some information about atomic research happening at Harwell and Culham.

No new bridge over the Ock

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I went for a walk along the River Ock to see if anybody had built a new bridge. It did not seem very likely but somebody had seen something on facebook and that is how rumor’s start. A bridge had been proposed when the brewery was redeveloped but the residents didn’t want it.

Somebody had been building a stick teepee.

There was a fallen tree, and some stepping trunk segments.
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Here are a couple of Muntjac, quite safe because there is no bridge.