Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Over the years I have been to many a church or catherderal and can appreciate their beauty even if I don’t agree with their usage being a devout athiest. So, when I saw online pictures of a grand Hindu temple in London I added it to my list of places I wanted to visit. When …
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If you live in the town you will know that over the years Reading has played host to many an important person. It is the burial place of a king, King Henry I, the prison of a poet, Oscar Wilde, and the school of an author, Jane Austen. Only it turns out that Austin was …
While driving through the Oxfordshire countryside on the way to Grey’s Court the other day I spotted a sign advertising the forthcoming Stoke Row Steam Rally. Helen was away that weekend so it seemed an ideal opportunity to give it a visit. On arriving at a very large field in the middle of nowhere I …
Today we were back on the Thames Path for the first time since last year. We had intended to do this stretch in December but cried off as we thought that it might have been wet underfoot. Having walked it today I now don’t think that would have been the case as the majority of …
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I’ve never considered myself to be particularly creative when it comes to the field of arts and crafts. You may well agree with me after reading this post and browsing through the pictures. Anyway, when Helen was given a voucher for her birthday and chose a morning pottery painting to which I was invited I …
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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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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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 …
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 …