Neil Thompson

Today’s @nytimes Connections yellow is absolutely, 100% wrong. Photoshop is a product of Adobe and not a company.

The @RoyalMail app really is hopeless. Often can’t retrieve tracked items and now has stopped showing the names I’ve given. It’s a complete lottery as to whether it’s going to work.

.@Ocado please, please, PLEASE bring back the edit item on hover. It is so much slower now to remove items when editing yout trolly. This is particularly an issue with a trolly that has been auto generated.

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How can Peter Bank's solo work have eluded me for so long? Currently listening to Reduction - what an amazing album.

On this cruise, there have been two days at sea to fill. The first one was easiest as it was the first day, and so there was a whole ship to explore. Also, the weather was great, and so many were frying them… neilthompson.co.uk/2025/06/06/nor…

On almost all cruises you end up in a destination which is smaller than the rest, or further out from the action (Piraeus for Athens or Civitavecchia for Rome for example). Haugesund was that stop on this c… neilthompson.co.uk/2025/06/05/nor…

Nestled at the end of the Aurlandsfjord is Flåm, a tiny place that is known predominantly for one thing and one thing only— the train to Myrdal. Does anyone come to Flåm for anything other than the railway … neilthompson.co.uk/2025/06/04/nor…

We don’t normally go on organised excursions laid on by the cruise company because, quite frankly, they don’t represent very good value for money. Often you can do the same trip for half the pri… neilthompson.co.uk/2025/06/03/nor…

When we awoke this morning, we were already docked in Stavanger, Norway’s third-largest city, a place of 150,000 people, making it less than half the size of my hometown of Reading. Stavanger has grown … neilthompson.co.uk/2025/06/02/nor…

There’s a lot to be said for the comfort of familiar things – a favourite place, a much loved song or a film that lifts you – and it can be very discombobulating to do someting that on… neilthompson.co.uk/2025/06/01/nor…

Reading Museum has one small exhibtion space, the John Madjeski art gallery, that they put to good use displaying a number of interesting exhibitions each there for about six months. Previous o… neilthompson.co.uk/2025/05/28/rea…

At the beginning of the year I wrote about The Murals of Central Reading highlighting the three that were there, two of which were very recent. I compared them with Bristol and noted how Reading’s “are a much m… neilthompson.co.uk/2025/05/23/rea…

Glad to see that there are moves afoot to stop this sort of nonsense.rdg.today/government-ann…

Years ago my Dad told me about a place in Swindon where the Science Museum held items that there wasn’t room for in their museums. Tickets seemed to be like hens teeth and then came Covid and the pl… neilthompson.co.uk/2025/05/18/sci…

I have for some time now been attempting to visit every museum in the Reading area of which there are eight by my reckoning. The last of these that I had to do was a tiny place just on the outskir… neilthompson.co.uk/2025/05/07/riv…

The great thing about having gone out of Amsterdam the last couple of days was that meant we could explore some of the city today without repeating ourselves. A Place of Calm When we were here … neilthompson.co.uk/2025/05/04/ams…

Brand new passport and it doesn’t work in the automatic gates. Brilliant. Only ten years till I can replace it.

We had this morning loosely planned out, where we’d do some of the highlights of Amsterdam. Helen then said the next time we come, we should go further afield, so I suggested we go to Delft today. This i… neilthompson.co.uk/2025/05/03/ams…

Overreach and Virgin Media need to learn a thing or two from the Dutch and start putting more effort into their street cabinets.