Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Something new for Heritage Open Days this year and arguably, something without any heritage— a trip up the newly opened ONE Station Hill building in Reading. Having done all the other things on offer and seeing that this offered the opportunity to look out onto the roof of Reading, we were keen to go. Missed …
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When I was on the university campus the other day, visiting the new World Reimagined globes that had been installed, I made a slight detour to visit one of the ugliest buildings around— the Region 6 War Room. I didn’t know that this even existed until I stumbled across this video which highlighted it and …
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On New Year’s Day this year, we went over to the university to check out the globes that had been installed to create an art trail on the campus. This was part of a wider national campaign called The World Reimagined which had globes all over the country. You can read about this initial visit …
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Reading Museum has one small exhibtion space, the John Madjeski art gallery, that they put to good use displaying a number of interesting exhibitions each there for about six months. Previous ones had all been more traditional art type exhibitions and the last of which was Art Stories where recent works of art acquired by …
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At the beginning of the year I wrote about The Murals of Central Reading highlighting the three that were there, two of which were very recent. I compared them with Bristol and noted how Reading’s “are a much more sober and corporate affair.” Royals, Residents & a Rock Festival For as long as I have …
I have for some time now been attempting to visit every museum in the Reading area of which there are eight by my reckoning. The last of these that I had to do was a tiny place just on the outskirts of town, just 15 minute from the centre. I have to admit I had …
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Heading out for our fifth leg of the Thames Path this morning, neither Helen nor I were really feeling it, suffering from an unexplainable malaise. However, we pushed on and were really glad that we did. The weather was supposed to be sunny but feel like only four degrees due to a cold wind, but …
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It has been quite a while since I last did a Record Store Day; in fact, it has been eight years. The reasons for this are many but mainly it’s been because the date has clashed with other things in many of those years and then there was COVID too. However, this year I decided …
I had seen on the Reading Walks Festival site that one of the walks this year was around Reading’s Inner Distribution Road. Unfortunately, I couldn’t make this but that didn’t stop me from doing the walk myself, so I did! Queens Road I got the bus into town and alighted at Duke Street so an …
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Having not done any legs of the path for over nine months, suddenly we have done three in the space of six weeks, and we have, finally, reached our home port! We headed out from Reading on what promised to be a beautiful day once again. This time we got the bus from town to …
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