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  • blogging about blogging; 25 Jan 14

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    I’m off to London today to learn about blogging. I’m going to a Guardian Masterclass ‘How to blog like a professional’. Start-time is 1000 so it’s an early start for a Saturday: 0815 train from Cambridge gets me into King’s Cross soon after 0900. Time for breakfast with the venue only 5 minutes further.

  • A good end to a pretty good year

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    It’s not been a bad year and I’m a great one for lists so here’s my list of the highlights. And by the way I’m a geat supporter of lists of a defined length and that’s generally 5. Less and you haven’t given the list enough thought; more and you’re not really focussing. So here goes…

  • Good start to Xmas: Histon 1 Bradford PA 0

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    There’s no such thing as a free lunch but I seemed to get one today. I was invited to a Xmas lunch hosted by Histon FC and held in a rather nice catering zone in the Cambs FA headquarters at Histon’s ground.

  • POSH enough? Peterborough 14 Jun 13

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    There’s not a lot to link Cambridge and Peterborough. There’s a slow but not unpleasant railway line via the fens and there’s recent history of them being joined in local government but little else.

  • Histon & Impington: the big tidy up 1 Jun 13

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    I joined the regular litter pick in Histon & Impington this morning. It takes place every 3 months or so (there’s another regular pick run by the WI in between) and is expertly organised by Cedric Foster.

  • It’s not over till it’s over: the count, 3 May 13

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    (I wrote this post for the HISIMP NEWS, the newsletter of Histon and Impington Parish Council, which is being delivered this week) It’s 8am and you’ve slept really well. It’s the first time you haven’t had an early start for some time but you know it’s not over yet because today’s the day of the…

  • CAU, Cambridge; 24 May 13

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    It’s been a week of two birthdays. They were both 30 year birthdays, both males and both sons. And both were celebrated with meat.

  • 3 cheers for John Lewis; or maybe just two.

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    The best way to get the Xmas presents you want is to give them yourself. And I’d decided that I ‘needed’ a new laptop because my old one was old in laptop terms and its hard disk showed red when I clicked on ‘my computer’. Plus I thought I could pose better with an Ultrabook.

  • Churchill lunch; 14 Sep 12

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    Friday was a good day. Sunny start but breezy. Not too hot and definitely with the smell of autumn. And I had a day in Cambridge with lots to do.

  • Xmas dinner at the Glee Club: Dec 11

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    There’s a difference between a city and a big town (or in the case of Cambridge, a big village). We all know what it is instinctively but sometimes it’s difficult to set down what the precise criteria are. But one of them is perhaps that cities have comedy clubs, big towns don’t.