Out And About.

[mongers]

I'm very lucky to live here and be able to pop out into the forest in the evening, spend an hour on the bike and encounter free roaming horses/ponies, donkeys, small herds of fallow deer and pigs out snuffling the acorn crop.   

[mongers]

Guess where I went yesterday afternoon:





Nope that's Reading museum, which for some reason has a full length replica, taking up nearly all of the main 1st floor. 

I also went to Basingstoke on the way, but there is just nothing there, other than roads, roundabout, a giant mall, roundabout, other malls, roundabouts and, according to one local, the Basingstoke canal which would be worth a walk if it hadn't dried out over the summer into a long dry trench. 

[Maladict]

Good stuff, mongers 

[mongers]

I did have time to go onto Oxford and spent 2-3 hours doing the museums and riding about town.

The main reason I'm posting is because, in addition to a new 'Treasure' exhibit at the Weston library extension, there's a beautiful new exhibit in the natural history museum.

I think there's called something like 'Sphere of Life' the pictures should explain what they are and for measure there's are about the sizes of basketball to footballs:

[mongers]

More somewhat fuzz close-ups:

[mongers]

On the train home I stopped off at a rural station and cycled out to Silchester Roman town out in the Berkshire/Hampshire downlands, got there at sunset, somewhat interesting, but the landscape and getting there by an old Holloway was better. On the OS map is a perfectly aligned Easterly roman road, now a minor road or byways and it's call 'the Devils highway', though by then it was too dark to explore more. Oh and there's a rather modest amphitheatre outside the town walls.

[mongers]

Good stuff, mongers 

Thanks, Mal, but I bet you've got far more interesting photos of your summer trips to post than these.

I've put the photos on flickr, so at least they now easier to view.

Incidentally I used my shite single speed 16in wheel folder to do the necessary 25km on the day, so that's up to 8,000 pedals strokes

And Oxford looked good in the autumn sunshine:

[The Brain]

Nice.

[Maladict]

Thanks, Mal, but I bet you've got far more interesting photos of your summer trips to post than these.

I don't know, certainly no interesting Roman sites for me this summer.

[mongers]

Coming home in the dark, evening before last, got hooted at by an owl whilst waling over a cattle-grid. 

First one I've heard in years and in the last decade only seen two at dusk.

[HVC]

Crossing that at night a good way to break your ankle, and then how would you ride your bike

[mongers]

Crossing that at night a good way to break your ankle, and then how would you ride your bike

As if that would stop me.