Reading Roars!

You are browsing the archives of 2007 April.

I went to central Reading bar Pavlov’s Dog the other evening - and what a surprise I got!
Pavlov’s used to be one of my favourite drinking spots in Reading. I moved on because I felt that I was too old for it. I popped in the other evening for a quick drink and was stunned [...]

An apology to those whose submitted comments have either appeared on the blog later than anticipated or not at all (I’m trudging through my inbox now).
I’m getting a tremendous amount of spam every day (mostly related to gambling, sexual enhancement drugs and mortgages - none of which I need), which is obscuring the messages that [...]

I’m not a Telegraph reader. I’m more of a Guardian man. But the still-not-very-compact paper’s Footballer’s Wines, written by the ubiqituous Adrian Chiles, is delicious.
Prior to a big game, Chiles writes about the two contesting teams as if they were wine products. Different, and funny. As you might have guessed, the clubs this [...]

Reading Football Club are certainly ambitious, there’s no doubt about that, but how about this for a goal (excuse the pun), suggested this week by the club’s chief exec Nigel Howe:
I would say [the club] has the potential to be bigger than Arsenal because its catchment area is hugely beneficial…If this club started winning some serious [...]

May seems like an exciting month at the increasingly interesting Global Cafe. As I’d written previously, Taste of Malaysia will be returning on Sunday 13 May. Two days earlier there will a similar event bringing food and entertainment inspired by a more southerly continent.
On Friday 11 May, a traditional Ethiopian buffet, music and dance [...]

The evening after my Taste of Malaysia meal, I went East again - to Art of Siam, one of Reading’s many Thai restaurants, located at King’s Walk near The Oracle.
The Art of Siam is different. The restaurant really does look artistic, with old-fashioned wooden decorations and frescoes inside giving it a nice, traditional feel. Beautifully [...]

And the Idiot of the Week prize goes to a man from Reading who rang 999 to say his wife was refusing him sex. According to The Sun:
He complained to the operator that he was being denied his “matrimonial rights” and to ask for an ambulance crew to “examine” her.
I will end here as [...]

It was Taste of Malaysia time at the London Street-based Global Cafe again a few days ago, and this time I was a happy participant, rather than observer. Picking a table in the middle of the cafe, I very quickly made my way to the paper plates, my stomach growling as the buffet smells hit [...]

I was on the Thames Valley Park bus this morning, in a pre-coffee daze, when I caught a few interesting words on the radio “Reading..survey..worst..[inaudible]“. I shrugged my shoulders.
Later, I was IM’ing a friend and former Reading resident, now living in Thailand, and he told me that, according to a Daily Mail article he’d read, [...]

I’m not a great runner, unless I’m running to catch the bus and then I’m sprinting very quickly (though not elegantly, perhaps). For those thinking of taking up the pursuit and wishing to avoid exorbitant gym fees, I recommend taking a look at a cracking new (and very web 2.0) site called Map My Run.
Quite [...]