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  • What is it with blokes in the gym?

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    I‘ve been using a gym somewhere or another since the early 70s. The first one was the Clark Hatch Fitness Centre in Tokyo. It was on the ground floor of a block of flats I stayed at so that made it rather convenient. After that came Hatch & Turk in Hong Kong when I lived…

  • And finally … the last 12 months

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    I write a monthly report on my county councillor work which I send primarily to the parish councils in the Cottenham, Histon & Impington county division. I always finish off with a more personal item (And finally …). I’ve just written an annual report and have taken the opportunity to collect the ones for Apr…

  • Mar 16: photo of the month

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    Here’s my photo of the month for Feb 16. It’s of what they call a ‘redundant church’. St Peter’s on Castle Street between Honey Hill and Kettle’s Yard currently revealed because of renovations at the latter and a sign I’ve never seen before. Rather magic.

  • Trulli & Sassi: Mar/Apr 16

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    We’re in the habit of taking a short break somewhere around the Mediterranean in the Spring or Autumn to escape the colder weather back home and at the same time to enjoy a little more of other countries’ cultures, cuisines and histories. This year we jetted off to Puglia and Basilicata down the bottom end…

  • Great teachers part 2

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    Hawarden Grammar School is of course no more. A victim of the comprehensive education revolution which was right when it came but before that it meant that those of us who went to the Grammar school got a pretty good education.

  • Global teacher prize

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    There was an item on the radio this evening about the global teacher prize (www.globalteacherprize.org) and Stephen Hawking was talking about a maths teacher who inspired him. It got me thinking about my teachers. First off: my primary school teachers. I started school at Dee Road Infants School and then moved through the fence to…

  • 5 reasons I like living in (actually near) Cambridge

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    I’ve lived in Cambridge twice. Once as a student/abortive PhD student in the 1960s. And now. When we came back in 1996 it didn’t really seem that different to the place which I’d left 25 years ago. But in the 20 years since it has changed considerably as it’s become one of the UK’s fastest…

  • Feb 16: photo of the month

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    Here’s my photo of the month for Feb 16. It’s a shot of the super new roof at King’s Cross and shows people waiting on the walkway which leads through into the main station.

  • Jan 16: photo of the month

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    I keep a ‘photo diary’ on Tumblr (click here) and I thought it might be interesting to pick one each month and to add a little information about it. It’s not necessarily the best technically but there should be a bit of a story behind it.

  • Not a bad final scene: the Woburn Hotel, 31 Dec 15

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    I guess there’s one suggestion that fills most men with dread viz why don’t we go to IKEA? I don’t want to knock the store. They sell well designed stuff at sensible prices and there was a time when we were furnishing our first flat in Switzerland when we were regulars. But the company does…