Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Ok, not just any churches but an Abbey and a Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Cathedral to be precise. Westminster Cathedral The idea of visiting Westminster Cathedral was that it has a bell tower from which you can, apparently, see great views over the centre of London. I say apparently, as when we arrived we found …
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I really shouldn’t have been surprised at the level of security to get into the Bank of England Museum, but I was. There are airport-style scanners through which all your stuff has to go, including anything metal, so off came the belt. This, of course, is not to protect the museum but what is housed …
It is somewhat ironic that both my attempts to visit the London Transport Museum have come with transport problems. I had intended to visit last week but then the line between Reading and Paddington was closed due to an “incident”. Today the train was merely late. Major Sidebar Fortunately, in keeping with many others attractions, …
I forget how I came across Longplayer but I was fascinated by its intersection between two of my interests: music and technology. Conceived by Pogues member Jem Finer for the turn of the millennium, Longplayer is a composition that plays for 1,000 years without repeats. It can be played by a computer or “live” using …
I suspect that the films of Wes Anderson are a bit of an acquired taste— a bit like Marmite. I find them fascinating as much for their visual appeal as their storylines, but I can imagine that others would find that not to their liking. Like other “cult” directors Anderson has been given the Design …
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On the hottest day of the year so far, I made my way up to London to pay a visit behind the scenes at Shakespeare’s Globe on an organised tour. Not One, Not Two but Three This isn’t, in fact, the first Globe (how could it be?), but the third theatre on the banks of …
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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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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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 …