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Today’s walk was a 17 or so mile circular tour from Cambridge along the tow path to Baits Bite lock and then across to Horningsea. We then ventured across Quy Fen to Anglesey Abbey to see the Himalayan Siver Birch trees resplendent with their jet washed bark 🙂 We returned alongside the lovely mill stream […]
A Happy New Year to all my readers 🙂 Good to see that you are a person of excellent taste and recognise a real quality blog! After spending the first 12 hours of the new year in bed with Sally we decided a walk was in order. Neither of us could face the annual new […]
Congratulations to Boni for being recognised by the Queen and The Establishment, Former News journalist Boni Sones, 54, of Fair Street, Cambridge, is made an OBE for services to broadcasting and public relations. Ms Sones, who helped set up BBC News 24, said: “I am absolutely thrilled and tearful. There haven’t been many journalists who […]
Interesting talk by Andy Hopper tonight on Computing the future. I especially liked his comments on setting projects for his PhD students. they have to be more advanced than what Google or Microsoft are doing but not totally science fiction stuff – A hard job these days I reckon. Other interesting points was that 2-3% […]
What’s the point of Economics was tonight’s talk in the new Cambridge University Festival of Ideas series, a trioka of economists pontificated on the subject. Evan Davis was first on, causing a small cry of dissent from the packed lecture theatre when he suggested that somehow economists should be treated like seismologists that is seismologists […]
A few notes from my walk around Cambridge today. The guy I know who runs a tiling warehouse store (I was his first customer 15 years ago) said the bottom just fell out of his market 3 weeks ago. He is a loyal Barclays customer with a 40K overdraft, without warning or for any reason […]
Last nights lecture here in Cambridge was given by the redoubtable Peter Wothers, a superb talker & experimentalist, Its title was “Gods, Devils and Alcohol – Their Influence in Chemical Nomenclature” a sub title might be “With reference to shampoo ingredients accompanied with assorted explosions and fiery happenings”. The lecture theatre was totally packed, Peter […]
In the beautifully illustrated tear down of the new MacBook at iFixit there is the discovery that the new MacBook contains an astounding 96 screws of which 56 hold down the keyboard. It must be an assemblers / BOM nightmare with 13 different types of screw mentioned in the break down. Plus it must add […]
Just bought the book about the talk I’m now at in the Cambridge Chemistry department. Special 40 per cent reduction and the author, John Emsley, offered to sign it for me 🙂 Now for the talk on Molecules of Murder, about Ricin, Hyoscine, Atropine, etc etc
Vera from the Cambridge Rambling Club organised an excellent ‘A’ rated walk on Sunday for 13 of us keen ramblers, A 15 mile circular trip from Grantchester to Toft. Sally and I added on a 5mile trip to get there from Cambridge! Here is the route with photos:- Cambridge Ramblers – Toft Walk Widget powered […]