Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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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On a trip up North over the last few days we visited Scarborough home of the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Most closely associated with Alan Ayckbourn (all but four of his plays have debuted there) but we weren’t seeing an Ayckbourn but the revival of a play called Constellations by Nick Payne. When we got in …
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I’ve seen on social media a few times recently some interesting and unusual places to visit in Reading. One of those is the Cole Museum of Zoology in the University of Reading so I decided to pay it a visit. I’d seen photographs of the museum, well basically the same photo which is also similar …
This is a cross post from my dedicated Williams fan site, The Williams Database. On the original post you can see a number of pictures from the day. By my reckoning I have been to the museum at Williams seven times and I never tire (should that be tyre😂) of going there. I was particularly …
We love Wisley and are regular visitors. Every time we go back there is something new to see as the colours change over the seasons. It is a place for relaxation, I find it easy to switch off there, and inspiration for my own garden. So we were looking forward to our visit today especially …
Once again it is time for the Heritage Open Days, an annual celibration of the history and cluture of England where places that might not normally be open to the public throw open their doors. In previous years I have been around the Reading Abbey, behind the scenes at the Reading Museum stores and the …
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After a couple of days of doing adult oriented events today was really about keeping the active toddler busy. Turns out that a long walk to the activity centre followed by roller skating, then football and then swimming in the afternoon is enough to wear out everyone in the party and not just a three …
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