Category: events

      This evening I enjoyed yet another breathtaking experience at Impington Village College. Dancers from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance have been in residency at the school working with students and creating original dance material. This evening they performed.

I had a Simon Cowell experience this week. I was flattered into joining the judging panel for Impington Village College’s annual ‘Stars in their eyes’ talent show.  It was awesome.

      Talk of surveyors and I generally think of theodolites, hi-viz jackets and hard hats. but the County Surveyors are something else. They’re the people who work in the local council and look after the roads and they’ve got a society which has an annual dinner at the RAC Club in Pall Mall…

      One of the things that happens when you become a county councillor is that you are immediately invited to give up more of your spare time to engage in more civic duty. And so it was that a couple of years ago I was invited to be a ‘local authority governor’ at…

Us residents of South Cambs get a bit sniffy when we look over the border at Suffolk  and Haverhill might as well be on the moon for all the attention we’d normally give it. OK residents of Haverhill might work in Cambridge but why would we ever go there? That’s sad because there really is…

Yesterday was the day of the annual Cottenham Ploughing Society competition and dinner/dance. The weather was fine for the former and I attended the latter with number one wife and as a guest of Rick Bristow, parish council chair. The picture above is of the ploughing match committee of about 1950 but some of those guys look…

I attended the ‘annual general meeting’ of the Arbory Trust in Barton yesterday. The trust exists to ‘manage’ a woodland burial site and has been in operation since 2000. The idea for the development of the site came from Peter Owen-Jones, now a well-known TV Rev, and we were told at the AGM that the…

The Cambridge Marketing College is perhaps the leading marketing college in the UK and provides a comprehensive range of course for Chartered Institute of Marketing qualifications. Over the last few years I have lectured a number of such courses at the Certificate, Diploma and post graduate Diploma levels. And as a lecturer I get invited to…

Last Saturday night was an occasion for lots of people who knew each other 40 years ago to see whether or not they could still recognise each other. With less hair and a little more around the waist it was not so easy but surprisingly voices seemed easier.