Life's about experiences. These are mine.
As I continue to tick off the museums of Reading today I visited one that is only open a couple of times a month – The Royal Berkshire Medical Museum and Archive. I’ve known of its existance for quite a while but have only just got around to visiting and they make it challenging for …
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I was back up to London today where I was headed to the Design Museum, somewhere I had not been previously. My first thoughts on arrival were that I didn’t think much of the design of the place itself, which seemed pretty ordinary, but there clearly had been quite a bit of design thought gone …
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As I’ve said before I love London. It’s packed with interesting places, people, art and architecture and a great place to visit for a day but couldn’t live there. I’m happy to explore the usual haunts that the city is famous for but equally like to find places a little more unusual hence today’s visit …
For a while now I have been trying to get round all the museums in the Reading area and I realised that I hadn’t actually been and done a proper viewing at Reading Museum itself. I corrected that today with a long wander around its galleries. Outside The museum is housed within the Reading Town …
As I suggested in my last post on the murals of Bristol, those of Reading are a much more sober and corporate affair. In fact all three of the murals I am highlighting here have been commisioned by Reading Borough Council. Nobody is going to be painting their house with a night sky theme here. …
After a busy Christmas we decided to take a couple of days out for a break and headed to Bristol as it is easy to get to on the train from Reading. We had wanted to do a trail of some of the globes from The World Reimagined initiative as we’d seen in Reading but …
Late last year we went to see War Horse at the theatre in Oxford and agreed that while it was beautifully staged and technically executed it was hardly an uplifting tale. We both came out feeling a little flat. That is not a description that could be applied after seeing Joseph. 50th Anniversary This was …
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It’s time for my annual round-up of the year just gone (you can read the previous year’s reports here). My change in working circumstances has very much driven these stats as they did last year. Next year, well, this year now, I will be fully retired and therefore in theory all time will be my …
For my birthday in the summer of 2023, I was given a Raspberry Pi Camera, which, very much Heath Robinson style, I fixed to the conservatory window looking out onto our back garden. The camera takes a snapshot every hour, night and day, so I end up with a lot of images that are basically …
On a blustery but mild New Year’s Day we set off to Reading University to do a short art trail based around four globes from The World Reimagined initiative. This was a national art education project to explore the “Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact on all of us.” 103 globes were created, and seven …
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