I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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It seems to be getting worse and the evidence is the buoyant business at stores like Rutland Cycles. More and more people are getting with the Lycra, buying expensive bikes and cycling round in circles. They’re not going anywhere but…
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Apr 16: photo of the month
Here’s my Apr 16 photo of the month. It’s another church, All Saints in Jesus Lane, but it’s really a photo of a sunset.
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What is it with blokes in the gym?
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…
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And finally … the last 12 months
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…
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Mar 16: photo of the month
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…
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Polemics weekend: 9/10 Apr 16
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Trulli & Sassi: Mar/Apr 16
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…
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Great teachers part 2
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…
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Global teacher prize
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.…
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5 reasons I like living in (actually near) Cambridge
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…
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