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Archive for May, 2007

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Squatters That Get It RIGHT.
Previously in this blog I’ve ‘Dissed’ squatters and
their ‘rights’.
This last couple of weeks we’ve all heard about a
‘different’ breed of Squatters. One’s who take over
a derelict property, then through their sheer hard
work and focus, turn the property (and it’s garden)
into a little haven.
Now considering that our town’s squatters are
usually representative of [...]

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Reading Buses Acquire ‘Super-Nanny’ Status.
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We all know that the public bus services over the whole
country has gone to ‘Pot’ since de-regularisation a few
years ago now. It’s no longer simple for us mere mortals
to walk to a bus stop and expect to be able to identify
with ease, the bus that will take you exactly where you
want [...]

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‘The Reading, Berkshire Whiff’.
Everyone who’s ever lived in or around Reading Berkshire,
can remember the now famous ‘Whitley-Whiff’. A phrase that’s
found it’s place in local ‘folklore’. Caused by the good old
sewage plant that Whitley was built around, and didn’t it ‘pong’
in the summer months?
Recently a brand new, state-of-the-art facility has all but made
the ‘Whitley-Whiff’ a thing [...]

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The Reading Royal Berks Hospital. 
Today I read a great little story in our local paper,
‘The Reading Evening Post’, submitted by a Mr Brian Lewendon.
He’s the press officer for the Tilehurst branch of the ‘Royal British
Legion’.  He was there sussing out the lay of the land, as the
hospital has given them permission to place their display [...]

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Uncle Ben Rice.
A continuing saga of a misplaced mind.
In this wonderful town of Reading, Berkshire.
Where we have a most ‘excellent’ premiership football team
that displays ALL of the attributes we’d like to think Reading
stands for. We have in our midst;- Uncle Ben Rice.
Amongst other misguided purposes in his life, he is allowed
to write for our local [...]

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Am I Tempting Fate Here?
A Continuing Tale Of ‘Squatters’ In West Reading, Berks. UK.
“You Are A Number, Not A Man”
I hope I’m not tempting fate, but since the last fire on the Friday evening of
27/04/07, where the Police ‘actually’ took some action and professionally
boarded up the basement of the ‘Squatters’ house next door, they’ve NOT
been [...]

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