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Re: Hello from Reading, UK

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 16:52
by alexh
Hi, I'm just down the next stop on the train line in Didcot, 18 minutes away. Pre-Covid I'd go to Reading most weekends shopping and a pint at The Ale House and the Allied Arms. Welcome. If you need any bits let me know.

Re: Hello from Reading, UK

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 19:02
by juz400
I can remember many a night in the late 1990`s staggering out the back of the PurpleTurtle with a pint of beer stashed inside my jacket pocket to sup/spill on the way back to the trainstation :lol:

Re: Hello from Reading, UK

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 19:18
by terriblefire
Although I'm a Hebridean my grandfather is from Reading originally and I have a lot of family in the area still. :) Literally the only football team i have ever supported is the Royals :)

Re: Hello from Reading, UK

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 21:38
by viking272
alexh wrote: 07 Jan 2021 16:52 Hi, I'm just down the next stop on the train line in Didcot, 18 minutes away. Pre-Covid I'd go to Reading most weekends shopping and a pint at The Ale House and the Allied Arms. Welcome. If you need any bits let me know.
Excellent, not far at all alexh. I know those bars well too :-)
I'm fixing up my Falcon and STE and building a case for them from MDF/fibre wood but for now I think I'm good!
terriblefire wrote: 07 Jan 2021 19:18 Although I'm a Hebridean my grandfather is from Reading originally and I have a lot of family in the area still. :) Literally the only football team i have ever supported is the Royals :)
Nice one terriblefire. I once sat next to ex-footballer Ady Williams at a dinner. I won a round of golf that evening at a nearby golf course and we arranged to go together, then I lost all the paperwork the following week :-( I also worked with Thiery Nevers mum. She named him after Thiery Henry - a self fulfilling prophecy!
juz400 wrote: 07 Jan 2021 19:02 I can remember many a night in the late 1990`s staggering out the back of the PurpleTurtle with a pint of beer stashed inside my jacket pocket to sup/spill on the way back to the trainstation :lol:
Haha, my work office is about 100m from Purple Turtle and every Monday morning there's a collection of pint glasses on the window sills.

Re: Hello from Reading, UK

Posted: 07 Jan 2021 22:19
by stephen_usher
Hello from Oxford! :welcomewave:

Re: Hello from Reading, UK

Posted: 09 Jan 2021 13:38
by hiddenevil
Hello from South Yorkshire!

Re: Hello from Reading, UK

Posted: 09 Jan 2021 21:24
by viking272
stephen_usher wrote: 07 Jan 2021 22:19 Hello from Oxford! :welcomewave:
Not far - just over the border :)
hiddenevil wrote: 09 Jan 2021 13:38 Hello from South Yorkshire!
Howdy hiddenevil :)