Life's about experiences. These are mine.
For a while now I have been trying to get round all the museums in the Reading area and I realised that I hadn’t actually been and done a proper viewing at Reading Museum itself. I corrected that today with a long wander around its galleries. Outside The museum is housed within the Reading Town …
As I suggested in my last post on the murals of Bristol, those of Reading are a much more sober and corporate affair. In fact all three of the murals I am highlighting here have been commisioned by Reading Borough Council. Nobody is going to be painting their house with a night sky theme here. …
After a busy Christmas we decided to take a couple of days out for a break and headed to Bristol as it is easy to get to on the train from Reading. We had wanted to do a trail of some of the globes from The World Reimagined initiative as we’d seen in Reading but …
Late last year we went to see War Horse at the theatre in Oxford and agreed that while it was beautifully staged and technically executed it was hardly an uplifting tale. We both came out feeling a little flat. That is not a description that could be applied after seeing Joseph. 50th Anniversary This was …
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For my birthday in the summer of 2023, I was given a Raspberry Pi Camera, which, very much Heath Robinson style, I fixed to the conservatory window looking out onto our back garden. The camera takes a snapshot every hour, night and day, so I end up with a lot of images that are basically …
On a blustery but mild New Year’s Day we set off to Reading University to do a short art trail based around four globes from The World Reimagined initiative. This was a national art education project to explore the “Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact on all of us.” 103 globes were created, and seven …
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