Many retired men want to build a shed, or perhaps a garden pond in the back yard, but one Hereforeshire gardener spent £10,000 and 3 years building Britain’s biggest cuckoo clock in his! 72-year-old Richard Pim, constructed the giant water powered cuckoo clock in his admittedly quite large garden, which now stands 25 feet tall [...]
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To celebrate the 35th birthday of the Lego minifigure, Legoland Windsor are giving away a free stay at the Legoland Hotel for the UK’s biggest Lego minifigure fan. 35 years ago the Lego company produced the very first lego minifigures – characters which over the years have been used for everything from building lego houses [...]
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Calling all budding pirates, and that includes you Jack Sparrow! The Brixham Pirate & Shanty Festival in Devon needs your help this May Bank Holiday to break a world record pirate conga in the world. World record: The Mile O’Pirates record attempt will be held on Sunday 5th May and is an attempt to [...]
Each year the big theme parks such as Alton Towers and Thorpe Park have to come up with new more exciting rides to entice us back…or at least entice those people mad enough to ride at 80mph on a rollercoaster. So for all the thrill seekers out there, here is a quick roundup of what’s [...]
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One Historic Garden invites you to step into history, and explore revitalised gardens and landscapes, delve into the wilderness and have close encounters with native wildlife. Seven gardens – so much to see. How about watching how an historic hidden garden terrace – unseen for 150 years – is slowly being rediscovered; stepping into a [...]
Oxford is not perhaps the first place you would think of in connection to William Shakespeare, but even the university city played a vital role in the life of the Bard. One thing which has always puzzled me is whether Shakespeare spent most of his writing life in Stratford-upon-Avon which pretty much lays claim to [...]
Plans for a massive £2 billion theme park outside London which will the 3rd largest in the world are on temporary hold due to a small group of jumping spiders found on the site. The designs and overall plans were all drawn up and given initial approval for the huge theme park which will be [...]
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A new Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition at the British Museum in London shows for the first time in Britain the ordinary lives of its citizens, perfectly preserved from the 24th August AD 79 when Mount Vesuvius erupted and covered the two towns in ash. What might surprise many is how ordinary many of the lives [...]
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Workmen repairing Coventry Cathedral got slightly more than they bargained for when they unearthed previously unknown burial crypts under Coventry Cathedral believed to date form the 14th Century. The ongoing work was to repair cracks in the building above and according to several reports, on digging down to shore up the foundations the workmen discovered [...]
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The popular BBC Two programme “Coast” is starting off a new series called “Invaders of the Isles” with a close look at how the Channel Island of Guernsey has been invaded for centuries with two very notable events. Broadcasting on 3rd April at 8pm on BBC Two, the hour long episode focuses on the two [...]
