Life's about experiences. These are mine.
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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In order to do something that wasn’t aimed at a three year old a couple of us went to the Target Centre this morning to do archery. The Target Centre was a reasonable distance from the lodge and looking at the map didn’t seem possible to reach by bike. This was because it was at …
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For the second year running we are back at Center Parcs Longleat for a family holiday. This year there are two more of us than there were last year as we now have a second granddaughter and our younger son is here too. It’s really nice to get the whole family together like this and …
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For my first day of (semi)-retirement we decided to visit the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. It’s been quite a few years since our last visit, ten in fact. The last time was a blustery winters day so we thought it would be good to see it at a different time of year. It’s a …
20 months ago I told my business partner that I intended to retire at the end of August 2022. This must have come as a shock to him but I’d been building up to it for a while. During the Covid pandemic Helen came in to see me and said that she had decided to …
WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD! If you haven’t been and want to keep the magic for when you do stop reading now! When it was announced a year or so ago that ABBA were reforming and would be performing I knew that we would have to go. ABBA has long been a guilty pleasure of ours. The …
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There is a shop in Reading that I regularly frequent and takes plenty of money off me and that’s the Oxfam Music Shop on Duke Street. It is a tiny place, not much bigger than my front room but it packs a lot in such a small space. They always have a great selection of …
We have been vaguely aware of the Milestones museum‘s existance for quite a while now, seeing the signs for it every time we drove through Basingstoke. We’ve had no compelling reason to visit it until recently when we were looking for somewhere engaging to take our young granddaughter this holiday. Milestones is living museum that …