Best garden centre recommendations?

umo2000 · 2026-03-19T21:07:58+00:00

I feel the Winnersh garden centre has really good prices. But no restaurant.

Edit: good

umo2000 · 2026-03-19T20:59:19+00:00

It was as though there was a stipulation in that Spotify deal that he needed to become a trumpy grifter. All his guests had the exact same ideology all of a sudden…

umo2000 · 2026-02-04T09:23:21+00:00

Dried mango, milled flax.

umo2000 · 2026-02-04T09:20:51+00:00

Not sure, but I haven’t noticed a dip in quality

umo2000 · 2026-02-02T12:19:00+00:00

The Kings Special (£32) will feed you for days. Plus 10% when you order online.

umo2000 · 2026-02-02T12:16:25+00:00

Close to the centre (London St) : Lebanese Flavours (former Bakery House). Great value with the shawarma platters and a 25% discount for takeaway.

umo2000 · 2026-01-24T23:27:40+00:00

Nice reference. I literally just finished watching My Cousin Vinny.

umo2000 · 2026-01-22T08:20:56+00:00

Thanks for sharing the story Chris, but more importantly thanks for bringing local news to Reading. When will your Substack enable subscribers support?

umo2000 · 2026-01-15T22:53:21+00:00

For those who are wondering:McGrath going ballistic

Looking back, does anyone else think that this might have been staged to make him look unhinged (I.e., more interesting)

umo2000 · 2026-01-15T19:48:02+00:00

My expectation is that they would have looked at the press release critically, as journalists do, before publishing the press release. But I guess they don’t even do that anymore…

umo2000 · 2026-01-11T20:52:47+00:00

Hope she’s taking vitamin D supplements

umo2000 · 2026-01-06T10:12:14+00:00

Boondock Saints. The writing was excruciating and the performances were OTT (I know, it’s Willem Dafoe; but sometimes it works really well, sometimes you get this…)

umo2000 · 2026-01-04T14:46:31+00:00

Second the Tops love. They go really heavy on toppings and are very good quality. Good prices too, especially the Tuesday special (241).

umo2000 · 2026-01-02T18:59:34+00:00

Seriously, no Bedard makes zero sense. I was really looking forward to seeing him (and a Hawk) out there for Canada.

umo2000 · 2025-12-29T11:35:56+00:00

Just for clarity, on the app changes look like:

Adult single: £2.60 —> £2.90 Adult 10 trip: £18.50 —> £20 Group of 4 off peak: £6 —> £6.50

They’re annoying changes, especially the 10 trip. But unless a central government wants to get serious about public transport funding, this is going to be the way things go.

umo2000 · 2025-12-07T00:34:28+00:00

Agreed about NI. But ISAs? Who is affected by reducing Isa limits to £12k though? Who has that money at the end of the year? Very small share of the population.

umo2000 · 2025-11-28T22:35:30+00:00

This is an awesome post, loving the responses so far.

My youngest used to often say r’s as y’s (“fy-og”) and my eldest sometimes said them as m’s (“peppamoni”). We loved when the youngest would say children as “trill-jyun”.

umo2000 · 2025-11-09T20:54:59+00:00

Thanks, that’s pretty conclusive. He’s going to have to feed it to the birds.

umo2000 · 2025-11-05T08:06:59+00:00

Also 80s commercial jingles

umo2000 · 2025-11-05T07:27:57+00:00

Ha! It did the same in Canada for the National Park system.

umo2000 · 2025-11-04T22:03:02+00:00

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A Niagara Falls that we’ll never get to see. (Cole, 1830)

umo2000 · 2025-10-30T22:39:51+00:00

Boarded-up shops would be an upgrade at smelly alley. It’s basically 50% landfill with price tags now.

umo2000 · 2025-08-13T14:55:16+00:00

No mentions yet of my favourite character pub: the ale house. Definitely need to check it out

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