Life's about experiences. These are mine.
This last week has very much been about planes, trains and automobiles. Today’s post covers the former of that triumvirate. There is something fascinating (to me) about transport and as far as I am concerned, the bigger the better. So an opportunity to see some of the largest planes up close and in action was …
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At the third time of asking I finally managed to get to see a screening of the film “People’s Emergency Briefing“. This is, for those that haven’t heard about it, a 50 minute film about climate change based on presentations given by “so-called” experts to select politicians held in Westminster last year. Grass Roots Movement …
The Oxford Bus Museum is what I would call notionally in Oxford given that it is ten miles north of the city. However, it is just 15 minutes by train, which is how I arrived. Google Maps had said that from Hanborough station it was a seven-minute walk to the museum, but it turned out …
I really shouldn’t have been surprised at the level of security to get into the Bank of England Museum, but I was. There are airport-style scanners through which all your stuff has to go, including anything metal, so off came the belt. This, of course, is not to protect the museum but what is housed …
It is somewhat ironic that both my attempts to visit the London Transport Museum have come with transport problems. I had intended to visit last week but then the line between Reading and Paddington was closed due to an “incident”. Today the train was merely late. Major Sidebar Fortunately, in keeping with many others attractions, …
The second of my two Heritage Open Days this year and this one was closer to home. Reading Minster My first stop was the Reading Minster on St Mary’s Butts an interesting chequered building that I had never been into before. I was drawn in by the promise of “historic parish records alongside Norman foundations, …
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Another one to add to my “I never knew that existed in Reading” list. This morning, we visited Green Park, where there was a free photography exhibition being held run by The Photographic Angle. No, I’d never heard of them either but this is what they say about themselves: The Photographic Angle (TPA) stages photographic …
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It’s that time of year again when places that would normally be off limits to the public throw their doors open and let us in. It’s time for the annual Heritage Open Days. In every other year that we have attended an event during the period, and we have been attending now for seven years, …
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It never ceases to amaze me how, after over 35 years living in Reading, I am discovering new things about it. In this case, I wasn’t certain that I wanted to highlight this publicly, as it’s a perfect spot, and I don’t want others to find it! To the Dump The Fobney Island Wetland Nature …
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I’ll get the jokes out of the way at the beginning. I was concerned that today’s trip would be a load of rubbish and a waste of time. There, now we can move on. Our u3a Out and About group had considered a trip to a waste centre in Oxfordshire but trips around there were …