Tim Tam

First Hot Cross Buns and now these purchased from supermarket Waitrose, I think the weekend will be just fine.

Cross

Well, that will be breakfast sorted LOL.

Weather Watch

Downies

Those lovely people at Downies Collectables have sent me this rather nice Aussie coin presentation, produced by the Royal Australia Mint. It's two $1 coins, as you can see, containing the final dollar for Her Majesty the Queen and the first of her son King Charles.

Good Job Amazon!

And I was in at the time LOL.

Oracle Gates

Some may recall this post regards the Reading workhouse known as the Oracle. After its destruction, the gates were relocated to Tilehurst Road in Reading, until finally residing at the town museum. I recently came across this post, elsewhere on the interweb, which is of interest. At least to me LOL. 

I wrote a short paper about British Social Housing, from its beginnings through to modern times. This included the Workhouse system, looking in particular the ones in Reading and Newbury. This was a couple of years back for a separate project but if I can find the original version, I may look to reproduce some of it here in the near future.

NHS

Just published today, a report on National Health Service hospitals with the longest and shortest waiting times. Interestingly two near me, Frimley Health Trust (Frimley Park, Heatherwood and Wrexham Park hospitals) and Royal Berkshire Hospital have come top and near the bottom of the poll. Curiously the former is a military hospital and should in theory work like clockwork. 

Read more here.

Homicide

Out two school nights in the same week? How totally outrageous!

At least I'll know how to get away with murder LOL.

Red Shoes

The tour, based on the short film, based on the album, inspired by the musical-movie. Or something like that LOL.

Bit Of A Billy Bargain

As we used to say. Anyway you never know what treasures you might stumble across in a second hand charity shop. 

This shop being Sue Ryder, a charity close to my heart. I spotted these lovely espresso coffee cups a couple of weeks ago but couldn't justify the £6 (AU$11.50, US$7.70) outlay. That's the total, not the price per cup and saucer. 

Plus of course they would take up so much space and I don't really drink coffee LOL. 

Silly, right? Well they were still sat in the window today, so I thought, why ever not? 

You Know

You know when you've reached a certain age LOL.

Trekkin'

It's been said before but it is worth repeating. I really think at times the UK must be twinned with the fictional rain-swept planet from the Star Trek universe known as Ferenginar LOL. I mean seriously so far this year we've seen more wet days than dry, on top of an extremely wet final few months to 2023.