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Memories of London Street, Reading UK, 1963
... 8217;s Road, to the right, was Smith's Coaches, which had services running down to the south coast. I remember our family going to Bournemouth and Hayling Island on Smith's coaches. On the left, in Mill Lane, was the central depot for the town buses. This was where the trolley-buses were housed. London Street was not a trolley-bus route; the buses that plied up and down it, including my own 31, were ordinary petrol-driven buses. The trolley-buses, which fed on ...
Kew Gardens
We went our own ways today. Tom and Ruth went to the London Metropolitan Archives again. There Tom diligently found more Stedman information while Ruth thought she'd made a break through then in the afternoon found some information that throws into doubt the relevance of her earlier discovery. Time for thought about what to do next.
We went to a local French restaurant for dinner and another pleasant ...
Don't Look Back into the Sun
... Rascal was ok, but played a pretty short set with way too much emphasis on his recent uber-commercial dance crossover stuff with Calvin Harris. The best thing he's ever done is probably still that surreal Paxman interview after Obama got elected.
The Libs were finally up next, and I'd waited a long time to see them. First saw Pete Doherty at an early Babyshambles gig he did for XFM back in 2004. He arrived late ...
Toddlers, sunshine and lots more hobbling
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Friday was a first for me as I was laid up in bed nursing my knee the previous week. I headed to Marjory Kinnon SEN (Special Educational Needs) School for youth group and "golden time", the latter of which is free time doing a fun activity for those young people that behaved well in the week. Once again the crutches were a hit, I was made to demonstrate my robotic moving abilities and to give minute detail on my injury - I'm beginning to feel like the most ...
Home is where the heart is...
... is booked for me to continue from 17th October, and there's no way I'm missing the Thailand elephant adventure. As I'm sure no-one is really interested in what I do in the UK, check back in sometime after the end of October for an update on Australia. For the more sensitive among you, I must caution you that Debbie is with me in Australia for the first 2 weeks...you have been warned! ...