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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
... I’m traveling with a computer, an old used Acer netbook running Windows XP. There are a number of reasons why I’ve decided to add the weight to my backpack, but the anticipated convenience of being able to blog while in lodgings with Wi-Fi is near the top. Unfortunately, because the netbook is old and slow, it doesn’t respond quickly and doesn’t always "play well with others." Facebook in particular troubles it, and it ...
Cambridge or Oxford??? That is the question...
... testing. So, we got together a crew and went to visit Sandro in Cambridge.
We arrived in Cambridge and walked in to the town from the railway station. There were some lovely quaint shopping areas and we killed a bit of time looking in a toy store. Now that we have friends with babies/toddlers it is much more legitimate to look in toy stores surely - we didn't find what we were looking for but we found plenty of entertainment ...


