Reading Roars!

I’m cringing.  Red-faced at the sight of the very first entry posted on this blog, dated Sunday 18 July 2005 (you will have to find it yourselves).  Yes indeed, this blog is now five years old.  Remarkable.
But will it last another five?  I hope so.  I hope to blog again as before (I’m convinced that [...]

I’ve not updated this blog since early July 2009.  That’s a whopping 6 months of silence.  I’ve been overseas, making it pointless for me to keep the blog going, unless I comment on external news related to the town or perceptions of Reading from afar (generally speaking, the football club is known but that’s pretty [...]

Keen observers of this blog will notice that there are 5 tweets displayed in the sidebar.
These entries are the latest results based on a Twitter search for #rdg, a popular hashtag used to group Reading tweets together.

Exhibiting more wide-eyed determination than a west London footballer on a bad day, I return to this blog after an absence of several weeks.
I apologise to those who were promised posts with none arriving (a bit like Royal Mail, but without the staggering profit).  I’m not apologising for the doughnut entry below (the doughnuts were [...]

I feel as if I’m breaking a rule here about posting something that has nothing to do with Reading.  It’s not something I like to do very often, but anyway…
Thinking about visiting or moving to Berlin?  My cousin, who moved to the German capital this month with girlfriend pANDA gIRL, has just launched a blog about the city [...]

I’ve just realised that Reading Roars! has passed its 3 year anniversary.  Three years!  I’m not convinced I can/should keep it going for another three.       
To date, there have been 412 posts (not an awful lot) and more than one theme change.  Culture is king: no other category has come close content-wise.
Regrets?  A few.  I wish [...]

Again, it’s been a while since I last posted on this blog (though I have continued to provide updates on Twitter).  I have been out and about, doing this, that and the other - including recording fab new Roarcasts (= Reading Roars! podcast episodes) at Mix cocktail bar and Sushi One0eight.  More on these soon…

What makes a town unique?  It is said that the people make the town.  It is true of Reading, in my opinion, derided by some outsiders who describe it as “soulless” or a “commuter town” (quite a derogatory tag). 
There really is more to Reading than a busy railway station, commercial high street and shopping centres.  There are buzzing personalities who [...]

I will be using pun-free headlines from now on. 
Thinking about it, half of my previous headlines with what I thought was cleverly-engineered wordplay didn’t really work anyhow (several headlines I wrote many months back now appear baffling to me).   Now I will try to make them as relevant as possible.

I’ve been experiencing all sorts of technical issues in recent weeks. 
This blog was infected with spam links, my wireless network is on/off/on/off (mostly off) and my home computer is wheezing.  All very irritating, on a par with midges, outdoor advertising and public transport, and the reason why there have been few updates lately. 
Technology can be [...]