Category: Milton Keynes

Food 2020 – Akasaka, Milton Keynes

Monday, 3rd February 2020 – Akasaka, Milton Keynes We had a date to go to the theatre in Milton Keynes, as we had tickets to see Sandi Toksvig on her “National Trevor” tour. As Lynne was working in the office that day (which is in MK), we decided I would pick her up from the…

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Food 2018 – Maaya, Brasserie Blanc, Milton Keynes

Wednesday, 25th July 2018 – Brasserie Blanc, Milton Keynes This was an odd one… We tried to eat out twice during the week with the intention of testing new places and ended up failing completely on both occasions and having to fall back on old favourites instead. Sometimes it just all goes awry. On the…

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Music 2016 – Erja Lyytinen, The Stables, Wavendon

Sunday, 1st October 2016 – Erja Lyytinen, The Stables, Wavendon, Milton Keynes A Sunday night in October at The Stables in Wavendon, and there we were, yet again crammed into the Stage2 space waiting for something interesting! In this case, the act was Erja Lyytinen, a Finnish blues guitar player who, I confess, I had…

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Wildlife 2011 – Luck in Photography

Sometimes, just now and again, you get a really great photo when you’re not expecting to. As a frustrated sidelined runner, I’ve been spending a lot of my Saturday mornings photographing my local parkrun (Milton Keynes in fact) which has the advantage of being staged round Willen Lakes. These give the lie to the picture…

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Theatre 2005 – Swan Lake, Milton Keynes Theatre

Friday, 28th October 2005 – Swan Lake, Milton Keynes Theatre Last night we went to Milton Keynes Theatre for the first time. The reason was Matthew Bourne‘s Swan Lake (yes, the one with the male swans). There was a massively full house, probably partly because Northampton’s two theatres are both closed for the foreseeable future…

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