Archive for August 2007
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Organic joy at Reading’s Farmers’ Market
I love food markets. They are utterly fantastic. So when I discovered last Saturday that there was a Farmer’s Market on that morning in Reading (it takes place every first and third Saturday of the month), I thought “screw Tesco, I will get my eggs from the farmers instead” (ok, it wasn’t quite like that, [...]
Rabbiting on at The Oracle
You do see strange (sorry, creative) things at The Oracle in Reading sometimes.
Yesterday, I saw a bunny wabbit upstairs with hundreds of scrawlings on it. “Alyssa loves Alex” read one witty item (greedy, too, as it took up a large chunk of space). The bunny was a prop to promote a marker pen. Take a [...]
First Great Western picks platform poet
The recent announcement that First Great Western have appointed a poet to perform at certain stations (including Reading) made me squirm. Sally Crabtree is known by other artists as “the pink-wigged pocket Venus from Cornwall”. I expect that commuters would rather have improvements made to the operator’s Reading-Paddington services. A company spokesman said
It’s part of [...]
Canadian seeks Huntley & Palmer relatives
I received an interesting email this week from someone named Ann MacDonald in Canada. In the email, Ann wrote the following:
I have only seen a few pictures of Reading, but it looks like a very beautiful place, and someday I hope to visit your city, since my roots go back to Reading. My great-great [...]
