I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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Wednesday was to start as it was to finish: in the company of Slavs. My taxi to the station was driven by a Bulgarian and this first stage of my journey went as smoothly as the rest: train to Kings…
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Blue Lion, Hardwick; 24 Feb 12
I’ve known Eddie for over 40 years. We were at Churchill together albeit that I was a year ahead of him. We were both natural scientists with a focus on chemistry and we both coxed although Eddie was more full-time…
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Rose and Crown, Histon; 12 Jan 12
I live in Histon. It’s a large village north of Cambridge and separated from it by the notorious A14. It’s closely connected to a sister village, Impington, and later this year the two villages will be ‘joined’ resulting in just one…
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it…
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Xmas dinner at the Glee Club: Dec 11
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…
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2 days and a wedding in Wentbridge: Sep 11
Where? Wentbridge is to the west of the A1(M) close to the junction with the M62. It could be in South Cambs: well-kept village, parish council, good local pub and high property prices. But they do speak different. Wentbridge is in Yorkshire.
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Face to face with the NHS
I really do worry about the right-wing idealogues in the Coalition which seem intent on changing our health service and our education systems for the worse and irretrievably so. There’s a good article (click here) in the Observer about it…
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another Indian: Zara in Great Shelford; 6 Aug 11
It was a promising start to Saturday: if you can regard a somewhat surreal encounter with the Italian language as promising.
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Cambridge Marketing College, annual dinner: 14 Jul 11
3 years ago when I started this blog one of my first posts (click here) was about attending the Cambridge Marketing College’s annual dinner. The dinner itself ends with the annual lecture and there have been some impressive guest lecturers…
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Mozart’s Bistro, Newmarket Races; 17 Jun11
Remember wedding anniversary: tick. Arrange suitable celebratory event: tick; we were going to see Jools Holland at a Newmarket races music night. Ensure good weather: oh dear!
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