I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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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…
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IVC governors: 10 Jan 09
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…
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Three Pickerels, Mepal: 28 Dec 08
It’s Sunday lunchtime. There’s nothing in the fridge and you decide to head off and find a pub for lunch. As long as it’s not Mothers’ Day you’ve got a chance or have you? But you head…
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the Old Bakery, Chatteris: 20 Dec 08
Last Saturday saw me heading north ‘into the Fens’. We Cambridge people, and if you live in Histon like I do you really are a Cambridge person when it comes to thinking about the rest of the county, tend to…
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Anthurium, Harston: 13 Dec 08
There must be something wrong with the Feng Shui in Harston because we’ve got another restaurant just opened where it was previously Truc Vert and before that Crayfish. Both were restaurants I returned to but neither survived. What are the prospects…
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Cafe Naz, Cambridge: 3 Dec 08
Like most Brits I like a curry (although increasingly I’m finding they don’t like me). So on Wednesday night I took the wife out for dinner to our preferred Cambridge curry house, Cafe Naz, just across the road from Shire…
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Typical Saturday morning in Cambridge: 29 Nov 08
I am a creature of routine and on Saturday mornings this means Cambridge and breakfast at Don Pasquale. There’s usually something interesting going on, I generally bump into friends and I do my best to avoid spending…
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if you haven’t been to Hong Kong you can’t imagine it
The symmetry was elegant … 32 deg C in Bali and 32 deg F in the UK. When we landed this morning after a 13 hour flight from Hong Kong (pardon my air miles; I have not ‘offset’ them because…
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Welcome to Bali: 12 Nov 08
Meticulous planning and flawless execution but it was still daylight robbery! We arrived in Bali at about 4pm and were picked up by the hotel mini-bus. About 10 minutes into our journey there was a noise from the real near…
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the Front Page, Jakarta: 8 Nov 08
We arrived in Jakarta on Thursday after 24 hours of traveling courtesy of Stagecoach and Cathay Pacific. I lived in the city for 2 years in the 70s and last visited in 1982. My how it’s changed. There are high…
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