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Sick
We had planned to drive to near Glastonbury in Somerset for a New Years Eve party today. Instead, I awoke ill and was unable to drive. Neither Nancy nor Andy was authorized to drive my rental car, so everyone decided to stay in Cambridge. With nursing care from the other three, I started feeling a little better in the evening and stayed up until shortly after midnight to welcome the new ...
Back to Cambridge
Another driving day, from the Leeds area to Cambridge via the A1 motorway, with a stop at Clumber Park near Nottingham. Again, I followed Brian, whose vehicle was needed to transport the rest of Kirsten and Andy's belongings back to their home. Dinner was sushi at J Restaurant after we ...
Best Christmas present ever
... the likes of Robert Graves, Bertrand Russell, Benjamin Britten, R. Vaughn Williams, Mary McCarthy, E. M. Forster, Aldous Huxley, John Masefield, Max Ernst, Henry Miller and Virginia Woolf.
But that was just the beginning.
Next, Kirsten brought Nancy another Kelmscott Press signed edition and brought me a box of handwritten lectures by Bertrand Russell, who I greatly admire both for his scholarly and ...
To Cambridge by train, with baggage
... the 45-minute trip to Cambridge (express). There, we loaded the bags into the back of a taxi and were soon at Kirsten’s door, greeted with excited hugs. After unloading the bags and a bit of unwinding, we walked to The Old Spring pub for drinks and dinner. After dinner and the walk back, I tried repeatedly to post a photo on Facebook but eventually gave up and used Kirsten’s Mac to post an entry and photo.
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Ely
... the locals don't like to eat them or there aren't enough to eat - a careful scrutiny of menus at local establishments confirmed there was no eel on the menus.
Ely has a tourist drawcard - free parking. But it works strangely. The "short term" park we used right in the centre of town allowed 2 hours of free parking; the "long term" one further away had a limit of 90 minutes!
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