I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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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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Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers: 24 Oct 08
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…
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on duty in Cambridge: 13 Oct 08
Today I did my bit for democracy. This morning I spent a couple of hours getting steadily colder outside Boots in Cambridge supporting a Cambridgeshire County Council budget priorities road show. And after lunch I manned a Lib Dem stand supporting…
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Cottenham Ploughing Society: 4 Oct 08
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…
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Galleria, Cambridge: 23 Sep 08
Is this the best value for money lunch in Cambridge? I was there again today and in terms of value as distinct from simple cost it takes some beating.
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Arbory Trust: 11 Sep 08
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…
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