Life's about experiences. These are mine.
I fancied a trip out this morning but didn’t want to go too far so a museum at the local university, within walking distance, seemed to be an ideal choice. I’d done the Cole Museum of Zoology at the university last year and so today I thought I would try out the Ure Museum of …
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Uncharted territory for me today as I headed to Pinner in northwest London to visit a museum dedicated to a man whose name became a noun used to describe fantastical machines over-engineered to carry out simple tasks – W. Heath Robinson. From here on in I am going to refer to him as WHR to …
A shorter walk today at only eight miles and with no train journey to get to the start we were able to step right out of the front door of our hotel onto the towpath having fortified ourselves with a full-cooked breakfast first! A Schoolboy Error To begin with, everything was fine. It was a …
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We’d decided that we wanted to do at least one more section of the Thames Path before the end of the year and the weather turned so we provisionally booked a couple of dates in the diary. Then, a little closer to the time, we booked a hotel at the half way point that was …
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I was in town with some time to kill so I thought that I would visit the new exhibition at the Reading Museum – In the Company of Monsters. Reading Museum is a lovely place both inside and out. Housed within the Waterhouse designed Town Hall the museum has an interesting and diverse collection of …
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For many years we have been coming to Oxford and wandered past the Bodleian Library, an not overly attractive building in my opinion, but had never been inside. I discovered that they ran guided tours around the library of 30, 60 and 90 minute durations and we had booked on the hour long tour. There’s …
It has only been ten days since our last leg of the Thames Path but the weather is noticeably colder now and coats and hats were the order of the day. The travel involved to get to and from the start and end points is also getting increasingly more convoluted which perhaps indicates that we …
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Slightly delayed due to train strikes earlier in the week today we were back on the Thames Path for the next leg. Starting from where we left off last time at Westminster heading on to Putney Bridge some eight miles further upstream. Where are all the people? I have written about this phenomenon before but …
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The last of this years Heritage Open Days was to an exhibition at The Hexagon called, imaginitely enough, The Hexabition : Celebrating 45 years of The Hexagon Theatre. If I’m going to be honest The Hexagon is one of if not the most ugly buildings in Reading and it has quite a few challengers for …
Another day, another Heritage Open Day visit! Today was another building that I had walked past so many times wondering just exactly what was the story behind it. Watlington House is the oldest occupied house in Reading having stood here, on what is now Watlington Street, since 1688. Now surrounded by houses and only a …
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