Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Today’s park was Universal where we had planned a route to include the Simpsons ride, Men in Black, Jaws and then the Beetle Juice show. The park was very quiet and so we were quickly onto the first couple of rides without any fuss at all. The Jaws ride proved more problematical in that it …
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I’ve said this before but Disney’s Animal Kingdom is a beautiful place to be as it is by far the lushest and greenest of any of the parks, Disney or otherwise. It’s a real pleasure to be there and to just wander around. Of course there was some serious rides and entertainment to be had …
After much debate yesterday it was agreed that we would make Disney Hollywood Studios the first park that we visited and so we set off at 08:15 this morning to get to the park before the crowds and the heat arrived. In previous years we have learnt to use the Fastpass system to our advantage. …
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I always struggle with jet-lag when travelling west and this time was no different. While I seemed to have slept ok I still woke up feeling groggy. To allow everyone time to get over the lag we had decided to have a lazy(ish) day today. We started by going out for a late breakfast at …
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The first day is always an interesting one as it goes on forever and you end the day feeling knackered having done exactly nothing other than been sat on a plane for nine hours. Of course the last thing you want, having just stepped irritably off a plane, is to have to stand in line …
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After last month’s bumper crop a quieter time this month. This months additions are: Asia – Gravitas John Mayer – Paradise Valley Roller Trio – Tracer (SoS) LSO – Sibelius Symphony No.2 (SoS) I have long been a fan of John Mayer and went to see him live when he was in London long before he …
I have starred on Google Street View before but now I have featured in a whole series of images as I walked down the road from the office where I was working. In what isn’t the most flattering sequence of images you can see me walking away, making a call on my mobile and looking across …
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We’ve known for about 20 years that our eldest son has a nut allergy. I remember very clearly him sitting in bed with us one weekend morning when we offered him some of our breakfast – crunchy nut cornflakes. It was the tiniest amount, no more than a teaspoonful if that, but he immediately spat …
It’s been a bit wet over the first few months of 2014 and the consequences are still pretty visible. This video doesn’t really do it justice but the water flowing through Reading is still pretty strong and powerful.
Many years ago in 1995 I was involved in the PhONEday number change when UK telephone numbers had an additional one forcibly inserted into the dialing code so, for example, Reading went from being 0734 to 01734. The purpose of this was to allow for more capacity across the network as a whole. My part …