Reading Roars!

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Yes, you read that right. www.fuckedcouple.com. Now, my immediate reaction was: oh my gosh, how did that get there? How is it that someone landed on my blog from, well, a porn site?
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I’m not easily impressed, but Reading’s Forbury Hotel and its bar/restaurant Cerise today blew me away. And that’s something.
Cerise seems an odd name for a restaurant. Translated from French, it means “Cherry”. Why would anyone call a restaurant Cherry? Perhaps it’s because it is foreign and therefore “sophisticated”.
Name aside, the bar/restaurant is quite simply fantastic. [...]

I confess: I have not been managing this blog all that effectively, owing to other commitments recently.
The Monthly Newsletter will be discontinued.  It never worked.  In fact, it never even started.  There is an orange button on the top-right, however, that is a better solution.  Click on that and you can subscribe to the news feed.  [...]

An extra 15,000 tickets for this year’s Reading Festival are to be made available, bringing the total capacity to 80,000.  These tickets will go on sale from Tuesday 20 June. 
Melvyn Benn, who heads organisers Mean Fiddler, explains that the extra tickets are needed in order to keep the festival competitive.
It’s good move.  Recently there were questions [...]

This post is one of praise.  Last night I went to the Allied Arms with a friend to watch the football (USA vs Italy).   Despite the two goals and three sendings-off, it wasn’t a great game.  But whatever, I could listen to the commentary and my vision of the screen was perfect.  Watching England games [...]

At last the World Cup has kicked off.  What does this mean for Reading?  We’ve seen the (naff) England flags fluttering on cars, people wearing England shirts about town and seemingly every shop wanting to associate their brand with the tournament.
The commercial aspect aside, I expect that people will be demonstrating a lot of enthusiasm [...]