Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Thanks to the law on Gift Aid in the UK, the ticket I purchased for Dad’s birthday last year meant that we could come back multiple times for a year. You can read about the previous visit here including more discussion on the fascinating law (🥱) that allows such largess (TL;DR they are forced to …
I’ve lived in Reading for over 35 years now and have seen the much maligned town (Her Maj has refused on several occasions to grant it city status) go from strength to strength. This has been helped in part but a much more cohesive offering around the cultural aspects of the town such as the …
It was only a few weeks ago that I was trying to refute that I’m not some closet trainspotter, yet here I am at Didcot Railway Centre looking at steam trains. To be fair, I was there so that my granddaughter could see Paddington (the bear) but that does still seem to leave me on …
Visit Britain ran a promotion recently whereby if you signed up to their marketing emails you got in return a £20 voucher, which just goes to show how much your personal data is worth these days. Figuring that whoever wants my personal data already has it I signed up and duly received my voucher. The …
Whenever I post about some mode of transport I have taken or visit a transport museum I feel the need to refute claims that I am a bit of a train spotter. That’s becoming increasingly difficult as time passes and today’s post isn’t going to help one little bit. The London Transport Museum Depot is …
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Today I knocked a visit to the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) off my to-do list. While I have been in the MERL building before I have never actually been in the museum itself having only previously had a tour of the house that abuts it. The entrance to the museum itself is really …
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When browsing the events page of the RHS website recently (as you do) I noticed that they have started to do ‘behind-the-scenes’ tours of the Hilltop building so I booked us up for the earliest date we could all do. Hilltop at RHS Wisley opened in 2019 after a £35 million pound investment in the …
This was no ordinary National Trust property. There was no stately home with a walled garden and acres of parkland surrounding it. Instead, there were 11 cramped houses home to 60 people in the centre of Birmingham. These houses are now owned by the National Trust which had saved them in the early 2000’s. Given …
In this months episode of ‘Why don’t you just switch off your television set and go out and do something less boring instead‘ I went to the Science Museum and specifically to visit a temporary exhibition called Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination. General Exhibits Before heading to the exhibition I had a …
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