#rdguk

[lycomorpha]

Ever wanted to start an altered book?

If you're in Reading (UK) I'm co-hosting an altered book workshop on 12 May, 6:30pm, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Silver St - tickets at https://alteredbooksmay2023.eventbrite.co.uk/ ✂️📚

All materials provided to start making your own altered book, or you're welcome to bring your own book/collage materials and join in with us!

#altered books #altered book #artist book #mixed media #collage #paper crafts #book crafts #art workshop #art class #workshop #reading uk #rdguk #rdg #berkshire #whats on reading #inrdg

[sophia-sog]

Did you know there is an Oscar Wilde walk in Reading? It's right in front of Reading Gaol (where Wilde was incarcerated for two years) and the Abbey Ruins and close to Forbury Park. The Forbury park fountain was frozen that day 😊. #kennetavoncanal #RDG #rdguk #readinguk #berkshire #berkshiregardens #oscarwilde #oscarwildewalk #readinggaol #forburygardens #abbeyruinsreading #metaltraveller #femalefronted #metalband #metalfoodie #metaltravel #metaltraveller #femalefrontedmetal #femalefrontedband #SeasonOfGhosts #SophiaAslanides (at Abbey Ruins Reading) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co0y6MEoBkq/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#kennetavoncanal #rdg #rdguk #readinguk #berkshire #berkshiregardens #oscarwilde #oscarwildewalk #readinggaol #forburygardens #abbeyruinsreading #metaltraveller #femalefronted #metalband #metalfoodie #metaltravel #femalefrontedmetal #femalefrontedband #seasonofghosts #sophiaaslanides

[calinalefter]

Our next RGA - Small Works exhibition open on Friday 23 Sep - 2 Oct 2022. Do come and see a huge selection of 'small art works' in this unusual and historic setting where Reading's rivers meet. Open daily 10-6 and on the last day 10-12. @readingmuseum @uniofreading #readingguildofartists #readingmuseum #lovereading #visitreading #rdguk #readinguk #artoncanvas https://www.rga-artists.org.uk/exhibitions-events.html (at Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock) https://www.instagram.com/p/CivQZxPrUs8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#readingguildofartists #readingmuseum #lovereading #visitreading #rdguk #readinguk #artoncanvas

[sukhjitdhaliwal99]

@maharajasweetsandcaterers_uk 📍 serve you Bread Pakora, a popular food and teatime snack from Indian cuisine, is a perfect snack to serve with a cup of tea in cool relaxing winter evening or rainy afternoon. Bread pakora:£1.00 Maharajasweetscateres_uk Now available at both store: 📌Slough-8 Grasmere Parade-SL25HZ 📌 Reading -227 London Road, RG1 3NY 📌 Orders for private parties & events booking can be made via DM #uk #ukblogger #rdguk #universityofreading #ukparty #readingbuses #food #sloughuk #londonbylondoners #londontrip #readinguk #londonuk #maharajasweetsandcateres_uk (at UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgtLv7urLt3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#uk #ukblogger #rdguk #universityofreading #ukparty #readingbuses #food #sloughuk #londonbylondoners #londontrip #readinguk #londonuk #maharajasweetsandcateres_uk

[fandom-imagines-stories]

Reasonable Hours

Tony Stark x Reader

Words: 785

Summary: Separating home and work can get complicated when you're a couple of brilliant- and slightly obsessive- engineers.

Notes: I wanted to write some domestic Tony and it’s been forever since I’ve written for him, so I hope you guys enjoy this short, fun piece.

Find more Tony: HERE

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You couldn’t honestly say you’d checked the clock in the past few hours, but the sun was definitely still up when you’d started your blueprints. You rubbed your eyes, the lines of sketches and plans seemingly burned into the inside of your eyelids. Hearing something being slid across the table, you opened your eyes, finding your husband sitting across from you, having stolen a sheet of plans. He was holding out a cup of coffee to you slowly drinking from his own as his eyes looked over your paper.

“How long have you been at these?” He asked, turning the design to the side and squinting at it. You shrugged.

“I don’t know. Couple of hours, I guess.” You stretched your back, not realizing how long you’d been standing over the table. Tony put his mug down.

“Come on. Take a break.” He reached his hand to you, but you hesitated. You had so much you could still get done. Tony jerked his head towards the door and you realized that if you stayed up much longer, your work would probably be undescernable by morning. With a tired sigh, you took his hand and left the rest of the plans for later.

Your body hit the couch so hard you were surprised you were able to make it up the stairs in the first place. Tony chuckled and wrapped an arm around your shoulders, pulling you closer so he could kiss your forehead.

“Burning the candle at both ends, are we?”

“You have no room to talk.” You snarked back, running a hand through his dark hair. “You’ve slept more at your desk this past week than you have in our bed.”

He just shrugged. “Fair enough.”

“Do you want to go to bed now?”

He checked his watch. “I mean, I’ve got some stuff I need to-” You raised a brow and he finally understood what you meant. “Oh. Then yes. Definitely yes.”

“But if you have stuff to do…” You shrugged teasingly. You started to skirt away from the couch, but he snatched your hand and pulled you back to him, capturing your lips in a kiss.

-

Without having gotten much sleep the previous night- for a very good reason, of course- you decided to at least try and go to bed early. Fortunately, you’d made some progress on your recent projects during the day so after a few drinks with your husband, you headed upstairs.

It must have only been three or four hours later when you jolted awake. The nightmare faded quickly enough that you forgot what it was about, but that lingering feeling in your chest was still there.

Right. That’s why you worked so much.

For a brief second, you felt that surge of panic again. Tony was gone. Something from your dream sprang to mind, but it was gone as quickly as it came.

“Jarvis?”

“Yes Mrs. Stark?”

“Where’s Tony?”

“I believe he is in the garage.”

You draped a bed sheet over your shoulders to keep warm and headed down the stairs, hearing the muffled sound of classic rock growing louder as you descended.

You entered Tony’s work space with a pair of slightly stale muffins and the need to put your mind to work. He, of course, was sitting in front of a prototype for a new suit modification and tinkering away as you expected.

“I thought you were getting an early night tonight.” He said without looking up. You shrugged in an attempt to seem nonchalant but he saw right through your silence. He looked over at you with a brow raised and a sympathetic look in his eye. “Nightmare?”

You just nodded and he set his tools aside. He pulled you into his lap and the two of you stayed in the peaceful quiet for a few moments.

“Maybe we should both head up.” You suggested. The exhaustion was slowly seeping into you both, even though he was trying to hide it. He glanced over the work left on his desk and you ran your fingers through his hair. “I sleep better when you’re there anyway.”

“Well if you’re going to play the guilt card…” He sighed dramatically and you rolled your eyes at his teasing, your eyes scanning over his multitudes of genius laid out in front of you.

“Maybe we should just get normal jobs. You know, ones that let us work at reasonable hours.” You said, sleepily cuddling up closer to him. Tony kissed the top of your head.

“Yeah, but then we’d have to be boring normal people and I just don’t think either of us is cut out for that.”

You both laughed lightly and headed up to bed.

#tony stark x reader #marvel imagines #iron man imagines #tony stark #rdguk #robert downey junior #iron man #marvel #cute #short #sleepy #its been a while #i miss this man

[bookfacearts]

Gelli prints, cyanotypes, & monoprints, with Neile Wright and Suzanne Carson today at the Rising Sun Art Centre

#art prints #prints #printing #mono print #gelli print #gelliprint #cyanotype #rising sun arts centre #rdg #rdguk #reading #reading uk #berkshire

[logoside]

Sentáos, niñas y niños e infantes de otros géneros, que os voy a contar la historia del grafiti "Create Escape" de Banksy.

Se viene historia de abuelo cebolletas, si te atreves, da el salto:

Los hechos suceden en una ciudad del condado de Berkshire, en la zona sudeste de Inglaterra. La ciudad en cuestión es Reading (aunque su nombre no tiene nada que ver con la lectura y, de hecho, ni siquiera se pronuncia como estás pensando). Esta ciudad -desconocida para muchos- es un importante núcleo empresarial, rollo mini-Sillicon Valley pero también urbanístico, con unos datos de crecimiento bastante curiosos... Por ejemplo, en 2017 fue declarada como la ciudad más próspera de todo el Reino Unido.

Su cercanía y buena comunicación con Londres han hecho que empresas de la talla de Microsoft, Oracle, Huawei o PepsiCo -por nombrar algunas- hayan decidido construir aquí su base. Además, como ciudad-dormitorio para la gente que vive en Londres pero trabaja en Reading, y viceversa, es una jodida maravilla. Artistas como Ricky Gervais y Kate Winslet son algunos de los nombres más reconocidos que ha parido esta ciudad.

Pero ese no es el tema que nos ocupa, hoy estamos aquí pa hablar de Banksy...

¿Por qué, de todos los sitios donde puede 'atacar' con una de sus obras decide hacerlo aquí? Sus graffitis siempre son muy controvertidos, antisistema y revolucionarios... Bueno, vamos al lío:

En (casi) pleno centro de la ciudad está la prisión de Reading. La cárcel. El trullo. El talego... Un edificio que a priori no se reconoce como tal porl la altura de sus paredes pero que desde ciertos puntos se aprecia claramente el tipo de infraestructura que es. Esta prisión lleva ya mucho tiempo fuera de funciones y ahora mismo es un espacio considerable, en el centro de una ciudad muy viva, pero que está muerto de la risa... por lo que se está especulando con su futuro en dos bandas, principalmente.

Por una parte, tenemos al Ministerio de Justicia que es 'el dueño' de la cárcel. Vamos, si poseen la cárcel es únicamente por el tipo de edificio que es. El plan de dicho Ministerio, que actúa bajo la supervisión de Johnson, es hundir el edificio para dar paso a la construcción de un mega-bloque de oficinas y apartamentos (uno de los tantos otros que están haciendo, vamos, convirtiendo paulatinamente a Reading en un barrio industrial 'más' de Londres). A esto hay que sumarle el tren-lanzadera que conecta ambas ciudades de tal manera que Reading ya sale en el mapa del Underground londinense como una parada más. Todo esto no agrada en absoluto a los readingensianos, que siempre han preferido la tranquilidad de esta ciudad, ya que siempre ha sido considerada como un pequeño espacio libre e independiente del alboroto de la Capi.

Por otro lado, tenemos al Borough de Reading (algo así como una división administrativa del ayuntamiento en donde se hace el papeleo serio que afecta a la ciudad) y cuyos planes son reformar la cárcel para convertirla en un centro polivalente de artes que dé cabida al desarrollo de esta disciplina en varios aspectos: Desde la pintura a la danza, pasando por la poesía y el teatro.

Y aquí es donde Banksy entra en acción: Banksy, con su graffiti, quiso dar su punto de vista y apoyo al Borough de Reading en su decisión de crear el centro de artes.

La pregunta es: ¿Por qué el grafiti de un preso que escapa de la cárcel con una cuerda hecha de folios escritos que salen de una máquina de escribir?, ¿qué tendrá que ver con todo el meollo que hay liado?

Pues por la sencilla razón de que Oscar Wilde fue preso en esta cárcel mientras estuvo operativa y fue allí en donde escribió 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'.

Entonces... ¿de qué intenta escapar el señor del grafiti?

Bueno, Banksy quiso representar con su obra la idea de que el arte es necesario en todos nosotros para utilizarlo como válvula de escape de 'esas cárceles que nosotros mismo hemos creado' dentro de una sociedad cada vez más exigente.

Y, de ahí, el nombre de la obra: 'Create Escape'.

#graffiti #long post #banksy #berkshire #rdguk #art #borough #carcel #prison

[archoptical]

Dawn at the Reading Gas Holder

#reading #berkshire #readinggastower #rdguk #gasholder #gasometer #industrialarchitecture #ar

[natstropiclife]

Long post: Yes not a festival pic! What's happening?? 😱 Give it a couple of weeks! 😄 I'm doing a run of office pop ups!! Oh look...Mother's day is coming (Sunday 22/03/20) and I want all your hard earned money mwahahaa! But seriously if you've decided, yes actually, I do want to treat my mum/s/dad/s to a selection of these lovely vegan, cruelty free, natural products, I'll be taking orders for Mother's day until the 18th March in time for mother's day. DM, PM me or shop online (link in biooo) you know what to do! Special shout out to Rakhee for having me today and for this pic which makes me look like I know what I'm doing here and @me_ne_lik for connecting us! (and for being wonderful!) 🥰 🌿⁣ ⁣ If you'd like me to grace your office space and showcase these beautiful products holla! ⁣(Those who live somewhere with average temp in the 30's will get priority 😁) 💚 ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ ⁣ #natstropiclife #beautycare #crueltyfree #greenbeauty #nontoxicbeauty #nontoxicskincare #naturalskincare #itswednesday #plantbasedskincare #veganbeauty #skinessentials #healthyskincare #holisticliving #nontoxicliving #wellnessblogger #nourishyourself #selfloveclub #wellpreneur ⁣#rdguk #ipreview via @preview.app (at Caversham) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9XNGQkneE3/?igshid=bd2zayngpe63

#natstropiclife #beautycare #crueltyfree #greenbeauty #nontoxicbeauty #nontoxicskincare #naturalskincare #itswednesday #plantbasedskincare #veganbeauty #skinessentials #healthyskincare #holisticliving #nontoxicliving #wellnessblogger #nourishyourself #selfloveclub #wellpreneur #rdguk #ipreview

[crumbstheword]

So proud of Reading's Pride 😍🌈⠀ ⠀ #rdguk #loveunites #pride #instapride #prideinsta #lgbt #lgbtplus #uklgbt #lesbianuk #gayuk #transuk #bisexualuk #pansexualuk #asexualuk #instagay #loveislove #lgbtuk #lgbtq #lgbtqplus #lovelove #ReadingPride https://www.instagram.com/p/B11R8KZHxiF/?igshid=17d40kltg47az

#rdguk #loveunites #pride #instapride #prideinsta #lgbt #lgbtplus #uklgbt #lesbianuk #gayuk #transuk #bisexualuk #pansexualuk #asexualuk #instagay #loveislove #lgbtuk #lgbtq #lgbtqplus #lovelove #readingpride

[lycomorpha]

One of this week's ongoing diary dice doodles 🎲🖊️💖 If you want to join badass biostatistician Maria Christodoulou & me for some easy & relaxing dice doodles irl, we're Rising Sun Arts Centre in Reading, UK - Saturday 28th Jan, 2pm - come say hi!

Book at https://dicedoodlesjan2023.eventbrite.co.uk

#rdg #rdgUK #reading uk #berkshire #art workshop #art class #workshop #doodle #dice doodles #doodles #drawing game #drawing games #generative doodle #procedural drawing

[sophia-sog]

No filter, but Sam helped with manual mobile settings 😆. 1, 2 or 3? _ #kennetavoncanal #RDG #rdguk #readinguk #theoutlook#metaltraveller #femalefronted #metalband #metalfoodie #metaltravel #metaltraveller #femalefrontedmetal #stillness #sunset #orangesunset #halloweensunset #halloween #romantic #beautifulgarden #riverside #femalefrontedband #SeasonOfGhosts #SophiaAslanides (at Abbey Ruins Reading) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkcLxTPIulK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#kennetavoncanal #rdg #rdguk #readinguk #theoutlook #metaltraveller #femalefronted #metalband #metalfoodie #metaltravel #femalefrontedmetal #stillness #sunset #orangesunset #halloweensunset #halloween #romantic #beautifulgarden #riverside #femalefrontedband #seasonofghosts #sophiaaslanides

[calinalefter]

200 years of Huntley & Palmers biscuit makers originally based in Reading, Berkshire. Reading Guild of Artists still open until September 18th 10am-6pm. The Riverside Museum is adjacent to the @belandthedragonreading Part of Heritage Open Days programme Curated by @jennyhalstead2018 and @linda.m.saul #BiscuitsTown2022 #TheRoseateReading #TheReadingRoom #AfternoonTea #HerritageSite #History #HuntleyAndPalmers #LocalTour #LoveReading #VisitReading #RDGUK #ReadingUK #BiscuitsTown #NeverLeave #ExperieceTheUnimagine #TheRoseateHotels @livingreading @readingmuseum @the.merl @uniofreading (at Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock) https://www.instagram.com/p/CikJtS2DeO0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#biscuitstown2022 #theroseatereading #thereadingroom #afternoontea #herritagesite #history #huntleyandpalmers #localtour #lovereading #visitreading #rdguk #readinguk #biscuitstown #neverleave #experiecetheunimagine #theroseatehotels

[jothomas]

The Norway Maple

There were regulars that sat on the wall and under the tree. One summer’s day rain fell, straight down, leaving a dry circular area beneath its canopy. People paused in the dry.

The Norway Maple could be seen from my studio overlooking this old part of Reading. It was a perfect spot to watch the tree and the life in and around it.

I took polaroids photos that became a short animation of the life to the tree. Other gestures included a Soft Boundary, a 7m long cushion placed on the wall to sit on, pasting a large print of the tree in flower on a shop hoarding and dowsing and marking the edges of the tree energy that stretched into the studio.

2007-2010

#polaroid

#norway maple

#St Marys Minster

#dowsing

#rdguk

[bookfacearts]

Bookface chapter 12 @ The Rising Sun Arts Centre today 

Suzanne Carson’s gelli printing workshop at Bookface today

Kathy Tyler reading poems from her book today at Bookface, with a backdrop of Reading's Lockdown Quilt, on display this weekend. Readings from My Word Poetry tomorrow

Helen Westhrop demonstrating her hand press at Bookface today, more demos from Helen tomorrow

Philip from ZAP Publishing reading a poem from one of their books

    Bookface is open again tomorrow, find out more here 

#arts fair #book fair #Reading #Reading UK #Rdg #RdgUK

[programerror]

#Repost @djgilbert76 • • • • • • Milk Reading This Wednesday, the @milkreading crew are celebrating the legacy and influence Andrew Weatherall had on the music world; come on down to hear much of his extensive back catalogue. A fitting tribute to one of the life’s genuine influencers and one who will be sorely missed. #milkreading #rdguk #exploredg #andyweatherall #andrewweatherall #lordsabre #music #vinyl #djing #sadtimes (at Milk Reading) https://www.instagram.com/p/B89HfX8gY5KkhkaouBL65Jx8K0rhZDZ3x0VTDk0/?igshid=sbh4iezhz4h5

#repost #milkreading #rdguk #exploredg #andyweatherall #andrewweatherall #lordsabre #music #vinyl #djing #sadtimes