I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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As a family, that’s us in the picture, we’ve been pretty good at remembering and celebrating birthdays. Last year was my big 6 so this year was inevitably going to be less of an event. But number 1 daughter came down from…
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Ludlow, another world: 19/20 Aug 08
Ludlow’s generally reckoned on being a bit of a gourmet centre but that’s not why I went there nor why I regard it as another world. Admittedly the breakfast at the Clive was first class (more on the hotel later) but…
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Crown and Punchbowl: 16 Aug 08
I’ve been going to the Crown and Punchbowl in Horningsea for over 10 years. The first time must have been 2006 or 2007 when it was really only a good local pub which served decent food. It then developed over…
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Old Vicarage Hotel: 6 Aug 08
I’m a regular user of the Active Hotels website to get good hotel rooms in the UK at prices that don’t break the bank. I started using it about 4 years ago after attending a lunchtime seminar where its founder and…
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Digital photography course: 28 Jul-1 Aug 08
I’ve been an avid photographer for over 40 years and have grown up with a pretty good knowledge of the physics of analogue photography. I moved to digital about 2 years ago but worry that I don’t take full advantage…
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Hotel Món St Benet: 22/23 Jul 08
I’m pretty fortunate in that during my working life various employers have paid for me to travel and to stay in some rather fine hotels all over the place. Often they’ve been the big brands and what they’ve lacked in…
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The George at Babraham: 20 Jul 08
I often refer to the advantages of living in a village, Histon having a village green and its own parish council which seem to be two necessary if not sufficient criteria. However given that Histon and its twin village Impington…
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Cambridge Marketing College, annual dinner: 9 Jul 08
The Cambridge Marketing College is perhaps the leading marketing college in the UK and provides a comprehensive range of course for Chartered Institute of Marketing qualifications. Over the last few years I have lectured a number of such courses at the…
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Churchill College, Cambridge: reunion dinner; 5 Jul 08
Last Saturday night was an occasion for lots of people who knew each other 40 years ago to see whether or not they could still recognise each other. With less hair and a little more around the waist it was…
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HICCA AGM, Impington; 5 Jul 08
HICCA is the Histon and Impington Climate Change Action group and held its first AGM, rather appropriately, in Homefield Park in Impington.
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