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Sally bought me a Oregon WMR88 weather station with anemometer, wind direction, outside temperature and rainfall gauges. I’ve finally have it working with the Asus Eee running XP Pro in its 8GB of memory and uploading the data through my WiFi to Wunderground. Giving the lovely chart above. Next job is to mount the anemometer onto the […]
What better after an invigorating walk than a relaxing Swedish Massage in the comfort of your own home, here in Cambridge, so many thanks to Sally for mine tonight. If you want to book a Swedish or Indian Head Massage then head over to Sally’s webpage and give her a call – she is in […]
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Clubs ‘A’ team walk was led by Rita. Nine of us set off from Waterbeach village green heading for Anglesey abbey via Lode. At last its warming up and the ground is drying out with a few buds beginning to form on the hedgerows. Vast hordes of people had descended on Anglesey […]
Boer War Gun at Gun Green Originally uploaded by geofones A lovely bit of local history detail that Alan Brigham dug up from Mike Petty after Alan visited my flickr set of Old Cambridge postcards. (The Boer war ended in 1902) Its such a great pity that all the newspapers archives are not online and […]
Today’s ramble with the Cambridge Rambling Club A team started further afield 🙂 The start was at Audley End, Vera led 13 of us, at a cracking pace, across the rolling Essex countryside to The Langleys were we stopped for our sandwiches outside the The Bull. Tea was taken alongside the stream in the very […]
Just back from the inaugural OpenCoffee meet up in Cambridge, UK. Organised by Jed. The event was in Cafe Nero on Kings Parade in Cambridge. A total of about 20 folks (Only two from the fairer sex, Juliette and ? Laura where did you get too!) turned up. I was, of cause, easily the oldest […]
After my hectic night with Sally (see her posts here and here) plus stopping to take a snapshot of one of the three police cars wrecked on Regent Street we didn’t make it back home till 1am ish. Then today was up and away to be at Cambridge Rambling Clubs ‘A’ walk led by Carolyn […]
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 […]
Today I was invited out on a walk by Caroline & Ray. We caught the train to Meldreth and then did the 18+mile walk back to Cambridge via Wimpole, Kingston, Hardwick and Coton. Interestingly this is the first time I have ever walked back to Cambridge in the past I’ve always walked away and then […]
Today was the shortest day and we celebrated it in gorgeous sunshine with a walk by the Cambridge Rambling Club A team, ably led by Larry & Margaret . A decent turn out of 14 hikers did the over 14 mile circular walk from Balsham via Brinkley. Cambridge Ramblers – Balsham WAlk Widget powered by […]
