Life's about experiences. These are mine.
How would you react if the sports team you had avidly followed since the late 1970’s sent you an email such as the following? You could probably hear my screams of excitement from where you are when this dropped into my email box! Welcome to Silverstone We had been asked to get to Silverstone car …
I’d been planning to visit the Thames Valley Police Museum for quite a while, but it is only open from 10 a.m. to midday on a Wednesday, and that always seemed to clash with something else. In the end, I blocked out the time in my diary so I could go and today was the …
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As I continue to tick off the museums of Reading today I visited one that is only open a couple of times a month – The Royal Berkshire Medical Museum and Archive. I’ve known of its existance for quite a while but have only just got around to visiting and they make it challenging for …
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I was back up to London today where I was headed to the Design Museum, somewhere I had not been previously. My first thoughts on arrival were that I didn’t think much of the design of the place itself, which seemed pretty ordinary, but there clearly had been quite a bit of design thought gone …
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As I’ve said before I love London. It’s packed with interesting places, people, art and architecture and a great place to visit for a day but couldn’t live there. I’m happy to explore the usual haunts that the city is famous for but equally like to find places a little more unusual hence today’s visit …
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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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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At some point during my travels, I seem to have become fascinated by pedestrian crossing lights and have started to “collect” them, well photograph them, at any rate. These are things that most people probably walk by without giving too much of a second glance to, but now I actively seek them out. I think …