Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Over the years I have spent many hours watching my kids take part in various extra curricular activities. This has included standing on the side of a football pitch on a cold Sunday morning watching a herd of eight year olds chase a ball, seated in an airless theatre as the local amateur dramatic society …
I did something that I hadn’t done in a very long time last week. I paid a visit to my local library. Hit hard by the digital age it seems that they are fighting back and to see that for myself I needed to update my library card with my email address and a pin …
So Reading has jumped on the local bike hire bandwagon with the launch of ReadyBike (surely it should be ReadiBike?). This is a scheme similar to the one so popular in London where a number of bike stations have been placed around the town and you and pick-up and drop-off from these. Coverage seems quite wide …
I have to admit that I wasn’t old enough to see Monty Python when they were first shown on TV (Not the Nine o’Clock News was more my era) but I have watched them repeatedly since then along with the films. When it was announced that the five remaining members where reuniting for a series …
A more manageable list this month after the bumper lot in May. This months additions are: Steve Hackett – Genesis Revisited – Live at the Royal Albert Hall Laura Mvula – Live with Metropole Orkest (SoS) LSO – Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 4 (SoS) OKGO – Upside Out Foxes – Amazon Artist Lounge Live Various – Best of the 60’s The gem of this …
Thirty years and the whole of my adult life separates the two images above. In 1984 I left home to go to Portsmouth University (actually back then it was Portsmouth Polytechnic but it amounts to the same thing). Unfortunately they didn’t have enough accommodation for all the first year students so some were farmed out …
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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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 …