Life's about experiences. These are mine.
It’s the time of year once again for the Reading Walks Festival. This year we are booked on to four walks which was the most that interested us and that we could make. There is some repitition from previous years and walks that we had already done which limited our choices. Two Rivers (and a …
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A while back I had the opportunity to visit the Mini factory in Oxford. Actually it isn’t a “factory” but a “plant” in the same way it’s no longer an “engine” but an “ICE” and a “chassis” is a “platform” but I digress. Today I had the chance to visit the Morgan Motor Company factory …
I said in yesterday’s post that I was able to cross off not one but two items from my bucket list. This was because we managed to squeeze in a trip to the British Library on our way back from Highgate Cemetery. The British Library is the largest of its kind in the world holding …
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Having so recently talked about my bucket list it’s nice to report that I have ticked another one off the list (actually it was two but that’s a story for another day). This time it was Highgate Cemetery, somewhere that has long been on the list. Margaret Makes It Highgate was opened 1837 when the …
No, not a review of the film starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, but a list of places and things I want to do. I seem to have mentioned it so often in these pages that I thought I would publish it. What is a Bucket List You may be asking yourself just what is …
I wasn’t aware of Crossness until someone that had been showed me some pictures of it and I decided to add it to my bucket list of places to visit. Crossness Pumping Station is a former sewage pumping station that played an important part in the eradication of cholera in London in the 19th century. …
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In the imortal words of Dante Hicks, “I’m not even supposed to be here today!” this being a bonus stop before my trip to the Handel Hendrix House. I had time to kill and had decided to visit the Wellcome Collection on Euston Road and thought that I’d just do the permanent collection, but on …
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I’ve had the Handel Hendrix House on my “bucket list” for quite a while now and had never quite got round to going, so when my local U3A said that they were organising a trip there, it was a great opportunity to tick it off the list. A Tale of Two Houses The Handel Hendrix …
I’m an increasingly active member of the Woodley and District u3a, part of a network of local groups for retired people. Like many other u3a‘s ours has groups on a diverse set of themes and activities. One of these groups is called Out and About and organises trips to interesting places, such as to the …
I seem to have developed an unnatural fascination with the work of Alfred Waterhouse, famed architect of the Natural History Museum in London and, as it turns out, many fine buildings in Reading too. For my Reading Guide project I’d visited some of the buildings for the Interesting Architecture page and also created a summary …