Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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 was supposed to be visiting the Science Museum today to see their science fiction exhibition. I’d deliberately left the booking of my ticket for this and the train until yesterday as I didn’t want to be going up if it was bucketing it down as I was intending to walk from the station to …
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We are lucky that Reading is so well served with transport links. It is particularly easy to get to today’s destination, Oxford, by train within 20 minutes. The train today was surprisingly busy and, unfortunately, I had got on the carriage with the bloke with the very loud voice. He was telling everyone, whether they …
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 …
This morning’s Heritage Open Day visit almost didn’t happen for me when my bus in to town was late (unusually very late. Most Reading Buses are incredibly punctual). I emailed to say that I was going to be delayed and ran from the bus stop to the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) where we …
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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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While the children were off doing childreny things this morning myself and my younger son again went on another adult activity. Before coming here we both went through the list of activities available and came up with a shortlist from which we picked two things that we were interested in doing. Yesterday we did archery …
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