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Memories of London Street, Reading UK, 1963
... by overhead wires, ran between the Oxford and Wokingham Roads. An unforgettable sight in the 60's was of a trolley-bus conductor wielding the long pole that all trolley-buses carried to reconnect a bus that had been separated from its wires. This process could be tricky and time-consuming, especially in snowy weather.
The hump-backed bridge after Queen’s Road was, at the best of times, a bottleneck. It was barely able to cope with two streams of traffic, ...
Kew Gardens
... this trip takes almost an hour. Tom spent our day at the Society working of his will extracts data while Ruth spent it finding nothing, that is no baptism, marriage or burial records where she hoped they would be. She now knows where they were not born, etc. This in no way gives her any idea of where they were born, etc.
We left the Society when it closed at 6:00 pm and caught ...
Don't Look Back into the Sun
... hammered, then proceeded to ramble through a couple of songs before staging a sit-down protest and being dragged offstage by bouncers. Then last year I watched him perform a remarkably sober and coherent solo set at Glastonbury. I'd also seen Carl Barat in a dull Dirty Pretty Things performance at Reading around the time of their second album, which was underwhelming to put it nicely.
But the Libertines are ...
Toddlers, sunshine and lots more hobbling
... off to catch the end of the Brentford May Fayre, which everyone else had been volunteering at, and were in time to catch some amazing cakes: I must pay homage to the incredible cappuccino cake, it was otherworldly. Everyone had had a lovely time in the sunshine, were all thoroughly burnt and really appreciated by the event organisers. One brilliant moment that I sadly missed was Ren being asked by a prominent leader in the area: "Are you asian?". Ren is in fact Peruvian / ...
Leaving tomorrow!
Well here we are, tomorrow night we will be getting on a plane to Bangkok and although we have been waiting for this for so long the last few weeks have really flown by and we can't quite believe we will actually be leaving the UK tomorrow. I have no idea how often this blog is going to ...
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