UK points of interest
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🦢 Context! 🦢 Growing up, my Mum loved gardening. It was her passion in life. Consequently, I’ve been to a lot of garden centres. One thing I’ve always appreciated about garden centres – and Britain has a lot of them – is that each one has to have its own gimmick. Exotic animals for sale!…
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I wrote most of this back in October, after coming back from my trip to London, but then forgot all about it – until today, when I found the draft I’d done that was 90% finished! Please enjoy sorry it’s a bit late 🙏 Context! Back in 2014 I flew to the US, and for…
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Context! I read a book earlier this year – The Museum of Whales you Will Never See, by A. Kendra Greene – about unusual museums in Iceland. The first chapter is dedicated entirely to the Iceland Phallological Museum, which as you may have guessed is dedicated entirely to the penis. At first glance, you’d naturally…
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Context! The Natural History Museum in London has its own page on Atlas Obscura and I cannot for the life of me figure out why. There’s some odd stuff there – as I mentioned on one of the very posts I did on this here blog – but it’s one of the biggest museums of…
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Context! Dinosaurs are the single best thing ever to exist and anyone who claims otherwise is lying to themselves. Wollaton Hall, despite being a major natural history museum, sadly doesn’t have any on permanent display. However they’ve been rectifying this with temporary exhibits showing dinosaur skeletons from other museums. Back in 2018, the museum held…
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I hadn’t originally intended on writing an entry for this temple, but it’s unique and little known enough that I think it deserves its own post. I found the cover photo for this entry on the Odinist Fellowship Facebook page! Context! Once the dominant religion in Britain, Odinism was brought over from Scandinavia by a…
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As someone who runs a blog specifically about weird/offbeat attractions, I have to confess that I found Edinburgh a lot more… pedestrian than Glasgow. It’s still a great city, don’t get me wrong! I loved Edinburgh Zoo and the Harryhausen exhibition, but I found it a bit tricky to find anything in Edinburgh that wasn’t…
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Context! If you’ve never heard of Ray Harryhausen, you may well have seen some of his work. If you haven’t seen any of his films, you’ve definitely, absolutely seen something influenced by him. Or maybe you’ve just seen snippets in the Malcolm in the Middle intro. Ray Harryhausen wasn’t an actor, writer or director –…
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I like (good) zoos a lot – on every long trip I take, I try to visit at least one. But they’re not really offbeat attractions in of themselves – at least until someone opens a zoo full of dinosaurs, which I don’t think could end badly. Nonetheless I wanted to write about it anyway,…
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Glasgow is a lovely city. In the time I spent there, I saw a few things that were really cool/worth talking about, but didn’t merit an entire blog post. Haggis! Liechtenstein! Sectarianism! Read on!!! #1 – A Really Mean Simulator 🛵 Perhaps it’s just because its inventor Sir Clive Sinclair died literally yesterday (at time…
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