Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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 …
Bletchley Park is somewhere that I have wanted to visit for quite a while given it’s historical significance to both the country and myself. To the country for the work on cracking Enigma and to me as so many of the iconic computers I have worked on are housed in the separate National Museum of …
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I’d never been to Canterbury before last week and that’s a shame as it is a lovely place. Even better was that the sun came out after nearly three months with enough rain to make Russell Crowe consider building a boat. The heart of Canterbury is the cathedral. I made the mistake of assuming that …
So with less than a month to go there is a real sense of excitement in the Thompson household as we prepare to go back to Orlando. Notwithstanding that this is the sixth time that we will have been to Florida as a family we still all really enjoy it and it is a true …
There is a joke, attributed to John Lennon, that when asked if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world he replied that he wasn’t even the best drummer in the Beatles. Something similar could be applied to Mike Rutherford, the guitarist from Genesis. That accolade would probably go to first Steve Hackett and …
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